Can a rich man trust anyone? Bien sûr que non. But then again, should a rich man be trusted by anyone else? Again, non. Never mind that everyone in Sebastien Marnier’s Gallic fable claims either the best of motives or victim status; you shouldn’t believe any of them.
And oui, you’re going to have to trust me on this.Billed as a thriller, Venice Film Festival Horizons Extra entry The Origin Of Evil is more of a murderous romp that has something of the spirit of Knives Out, although it doesn’t hit its plot points with anything like that film’s whip smartness.Serge (Jacques Weber) is the rich man in question, partly incapacitated by a stroke but — so he says — still in charge of his property conglomerate.
When Stephane (Call My Agent’s Laure Calamy) turns up and says she is the daughter he abandoned when she was a baby, he manifests all the indulgent delight of a whiskery old patriarch.
They snuggle on the couch together as she assures him she isn’t interested in his fortune. She just wants a family.And what a family she has found!
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