Karma: Marion Cotillard and Denis Ménochet impress (review)

César winner for Tell No One, Guillaume Canet returns to the thriller and signs his darkest film, carried by the striking interpretation of the duo he chose as headliners.

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 chase from her memory a traumatic past which will quickly catch up with her, as we will discover over the course of 2h30 where Canet works to ensure that the violence which unfolds there is never gratuitous but arouses plural emotions, beyond fear and disgust…