Entre ses mains

90 minCountryFrance / BelgiumLanguageFrenchBudget$5.8 million ^[1]Box office$2.9 million ^[2]

Entre ses mains is a 2005 French-Belgian drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. It is also known as In His Hands.^[3] The screenplay was written by Fontaine and Julien Boivent.

Plot

Claire Gauthier works for an insurance company. Laurent Kessler is a client. When she has to deal with him he tries to seduce her. In spite of her marriage and her daughter she agrees to dating him. When she learns more about Kessler it strikes her how strange he behaves and that he might be the serial killer who currently makes news by murdering women.

Cast

• Benoît Poelvoorde as Laurent Kessler
• Isabelle Carré as Claire Gauthier
• Jonathan Zaccaï as Fabrice Gauthier
• Valérie Donzelli as Valérie
• Agathe Louvieaux as Pauline
• Bernard Bloch as directeur
• Véronique Nordey as Mme Kessler, Laurent's mother
• Michel Dubois as Claire's father
• Martine Chevallier as Claire's mother

Awards and nominations

• César Awards (France)
  • Nominated: Best Actor – Leading Role (Benoît Poelvoorde)
  • Nominated: Best Actress – Leading Role (Isabelle Carré)
  • Nominated: Best Writing – Adaptation (Julien Boivent and Anne Fontaine)
• Joseph Plateau Awards (Belgium)
  • Nominated: Best Belgian Actor (Benoît Poelvoorde)

References

External links

• Entre ses mains at IMDb
• Entre ses mains at the TCM Movie Database
• Entre ses mains at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
• Entre ses mains at AlloCine (in French)