"Une Aventure" opens with a dead body, a gun, and blood on a bed. You don't know who died or who killed them. These questions had better sustain you for a long time, because the rest of the film belies its title: it's slow, dull and generally uneventful - it's almost the equivalent of watching grass grow. Ludivine Sagnier has a chameleonic quality that probably attracts directors to her; she can play the sexbomb, the girl-next-door and the pathetic loser. Here she keeps you wondering if her character is a femme fatale or a fallen angel. But this film is destined to remain a forgotten entry in her filmography. ** out of 4.
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