L'Enfer 2005

Bosnian Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) directs a formidable array of French talent in this tale of three Parisian sisters whose lives have been determined in different ways by the devastating antagonism between their parents. Working from a script created for the late Krzysztof Kieslowski by his Red, White, Blue collaborator Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Tanovic has created an elegantly burnished baroque drama of a family trapped in unresolved trauma. 
“An ingenious, gripping work inspired by Euripides’s Medea, mixing sexiness and unhappiness into something explosively unstable… delivered to the audience with such brio, such attack – and such uniformly excellent acting. There is such an embarrassment of riches that Tanovic can afford almost to throw away a cameo from no less a figure than Jean Rochefort… The hell [l’enfer] in this movie consists of being condemned to repeat past mistakes, to re-enact past cruelties, in an unending round… This film is far from an easy watch, but brilliantly presented and played – and a worthy addition to the Kieslowski canon.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian