Not quite a crime thriller, not quite a giallo, not quite a romantic drama, the film follows Émile (Jacques Perrin), a boyish Jack the Ripper figure who serially stalks the streets of Paris at night, strangling sad, lonely women with a white child-sized scarf. Anna (Eva Simonet) has recently dumped her cheating ex-lover, and fearfully believes herself to be the killer’s next target.
She offers herself up as bait to the inspector on the case, Simon Dangret (Julien Guiomar), who quickly discovers Émile’s identity, but uses unconventional methods to exact a strange kind of justice. It is from these three perspectives that a melancholic story of isolation and murderous intrigue unfolds into one of love and radical acceptance. If that sounds like a fuzzy, happy ending, I can assure you that for Vecchiali, love and radical acceptance are concepts drenched in more anguish than you might expec