Based on a True Story

The movie has some brilliant scenes, the camera angles and the color contrast is brilliant, the sound effects are awesome. The whole theme is dark. I watched this movie in it's original language with subtitles in English, but still according to the situation in the movie the way the actors delivered there dialogues was not fitting, even when arguing, the actress which plays the author is very calm with her expressions and way of speaking. Also the plot of the movie was a bit blur, it seemed that after watching it felt like I watched it through a blurry lens.

Directing: 7 /Acting: 7 /Story: 7 /Production values: 7 /Suspence - Thriller level: 7 /Action: 0 /Mystery - unknown: 7 /Romance level: 3 /Comedy elements: 0

Eva Green made 'D'après une histoire vraie' captivating. Her performance is beyond art. She has insanely captivating energy as Elle. Eva brings tension, alertness, and suspense on screen. She'll own you if you watch this. Other than that, the movie is solid average. It has that unique emotion that follows you from the beginning to the end. Actors played great roles, considering the part mentioned above, because the plot has gaps.

Long ago,Roman Polanski had warned us: beware of the neighbors, beware of those would be friends who ,little by little, work their way in to your intimate world : that was "Rosemary 's baby" and "le locataire " (the tenant ") ;paranoia had also been the subject of "repulsion" .

"D'après une histoire vraie" is psychological drama of the first order : Emmanuelle Seignier is as good as ever but the stand out is her co-star Eva Green : if looks could kill,her piercing green eyes certainly would ; always friendly ,but with something hard ,something threatening ;her motives remain obscure: a doppelganger , a lesbian attraction, something related to family past, a complete unknown in search of fame through an intermediary?

Green goes as far as to look like her victim, adopting her hairdo ( recalling sometimes Claude Chabrol's "les biches " ) .And the ending remains ambiguous ,you can interpret it according to your own sensitivity .

A weakness in the screenplay : the meeting with the librarian :the probability was close to zero! This is minor quibble though.

Writers block ... different edition. But again one, that you may have seen before or even if not, the mood of the movie seems to give away where this is heading. At least generally. If it were all smooth sailing, you wouldn't have a real movie. You need conflict in there, you need something that grips you and the characters in the movie.

Hopefully the right way and the suspension must work too. In this case there are cliches and you may shake your head on how gullyble the main character seems to be. You may very well be annoyed by her behaviour. If that is the case, you may not really enjoy what is coming. But there are things to discover and it still works as mystery thriller. It may not be Polanskis best (or anyone elses), but it's more than decent