Edy (2005) - film review

Edy is a successful insurance agent but, as he approaches retirement, his work no longer interests him.  He is bored with everything and decides to end it all.  He abducts one of his clients, drives him to a sand pit, hands him a gun and tells him to shoot.  Things do not go quite as Edy planned and he finds he has a dead body to dispose of.   In desperation, he turns to his friend and mentor Louis, who insists that Edy must now kill the wife of the dead man...

Stéphan Guérin-Tillié makes a promising directorial debut with this deeply unsettling melange of jet-black comedy and suspense thriller.  The main attraction is the casting of heavyweights François Berléand and Philippe Noiret (the latter in one of his last roles), who bring an intensity and subtle streak of subversive humour to what might otherwise have been a pretty bland affair.  The film is imaginatively shot and is sufficiently weird to hold our attention, but the story feels hopelessly fragmented, lacking both cohesion and credibility.  Whilst Edy is far from perfect, its director certainly makes an impression and has been likened to a new Tarantino.

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