Karma, La Gradiva, Clayface: what’s new at the cinema this week

What to see in theaters

THE EVENT
KARMA ★★★☆☆

By Guillaume Canet

The essentials

César winner for Tell No One, Guillaume Canet returns to the thriller and signs his darkest film, carried by the striking interpretation of the Mario Cotillard-Denis Ménochet duo.

With Karma, Guillaume Canet wanted to return to the thriller genre which earned him the Director’s César for Tell No One. But by pushing the cursors further with his darkest film, diving with twists and turns into the world of sectarian excesses. Its heroine is a French woman exiled in Spain who struggles to banish from her memory a traumatic past which will quickly catch up with her. Marion Cotillard for whom he wrote this complex character takes care of the suspense and twists of the story