Requiem pour une tueuse (2011) Directed by Jérôme Le Gris
Thriller
aka: Requiem for a Killer
Film Synopsis
Lucrèce is a hired assassin who specialises in using
poison. Her latest contract takes her into the heart of the Swiss
Alps. Disguised as a singer, she must appear on stage in the
Festival d'Ermeux so that she can get close to her intended target, the
British baritone Alexander Child. The latter has recently
acquired a distillery in Scotland and is the only obstacle to a
strategic pipeline project. Child has just won a protracted legal
battle against British Oil, and so the company has no other option than
to kill him. To complicate matters, French counter-espionage has
sent one of its most experienced agents, Rico, to the festival to
unmask those who intend to kill Child...
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
A wave of fresh talent in the late 1950s, early 1960s brought about a dramatic renaissance in French cinema, placing the auteur at the core of France's 7th art.