Across the Road

Across the Road

90 mins | Thriller | Feb. 9, 2000

Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle and, in spite of their ostensible success, the couple are having trouble making ends meet. One day they receive the utterly unexpected news that they are the sole inheritors of a wealthy neighbor, M. Guillemet, whom they have never met. Guillemet has left them his old townhouse along with all of his belongings, but with two conditions -- the first is that the dead man's papers be left untouched, and the second is that his live-in maid Clemence Richbourg remain employed at the estate. The Dorsets soon learn why they were the recipients of such strange generosity. Guillemet had set up a camera with a massive zoom lens pointing to their bedroom window. The couple is shocked and disgusted, but not enough to give up their new tony digs.

Across the Road

90 mins | Thriller | Feb. 9, 2000

Across the Road
Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle and, in spite of their ostensible success, the couple are having trouble making ends meet. One day they receive the utterly unexpected news that they are the sole inheritors of a wealthy neighbor, M. Guillemet, whom they have never met. Guillemet has left them his old townhouse along with all of his belongings, but with two conditions -- the first is that the dead man's papers be left untouched, and the second is that his live-in maid Clemence Richbourg remain employed at the estate. The Dorsets soon learn why they were the recipients of such strange generosity. Guillemet had set up a camera with a massive zoom lens pointing to their bedroom window. The couple is shocked and disgusted, but not enough to give up their new tony digs.
IMDb rating 5.0
Producers M6 Films, Carrere Group D.A., Cinémane Films
Original title En face
Directors Mathias Ledoux
Writers

Cast

Clotilde Courau

as Michelle

Christine Boisson

as Clémence

José Garcia

as Hugo

Danièle Lebrun

as la femme en rouge

Jean Benguigui

as Henri de Villard

Emmanuel Salinger

as Inspecteur Ruault

Laurence Février

as Ghislaine de Villard

Ariel Wizman

as Vet

Anne Loiret

as Victoria