And where its characters are well-drawn, you can see flashes of the movie this should have been they make it worth your while.
But neither is a bad film on its own Rapt is very ambitious, though it often doesn’t seem so. Capucine Grelardon, assistant unit manager, Philippe Groff, unit production manager: Belgium. That’s why I started thinking about the flaws in Senseless, which I watched less than a month before seeing this, and by the time the movie was over I’d started seeing them as complementary pieces those things Senseless did wrong, for the most part, Rapt got right, and vice versa, so putting the two together would have worked very well indeed. (And this movie reminded me of the latter more than once, I have to say.) On the other hand, he didn’t give us enough character development, especially with the lead kidnapper, to turn this into the kind of talk-piece Belvaux seemed to be aiming for. The obvious first thing here is to give kudos to Belvaux for playing it straight I can’t imagine how much temptation there must have been to turn this into a farce, or at least a Reservoir Dogs or A Touch of Larceny-style satire. But if you were homeless and lived in a sewer.” “Just think of it as camping in your backyard. Directed by Lucas BelvauxProduced by Agat Films & CieGenres : Fiction - Runtime : 2 h 5 minFrench release : Production year : 2008Stanislas Graff.