Le Serpent (2006)

Cautiously Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: Le serpent

Director: Eric Barbier

Writers: Eric Barbier, Trân-Minh Nam, Ted Lewis

Cinematographer: Jérôme Robert

Composer: Renaud Barbier

Cast: Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac, Pierre Richard, Simon Abkarian, Minna Haapkylä, Olga Kurylenko, Gérald Laroche, Veronika Varga, Pierre Marzin

A man going through the pains of divorce finds his life further disrupted when a childhood “friend,” who he bullied casually and mercilessly in adolescence, contrives to frame him for the murder of a beautiful young woman, in this thoroughly unpredictable and enjoyably silly adaptation of Ted Lewis’s novel. Iain.Stott