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Anything For Her (Pour Elle)

Cert: 15

Description: Lisa has everything she ever wanted: a doting husband, Julien, a good job, and an adorable, young son, Oscar. Her world comes tumbling down when the police arrive one morning and arrest her for the brutal murder of a work colleague. Lisa is sentenced to 20 years behind bars for a crime she maintains she did not commit and resigns herself to spending all of Oscar's formative years locked away in a cell. However, Julien refuses to accept the verdict and he begins to concoct an elaborate plan to spring his wife from jail.

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Dir: Fred Cavaye.

Cast: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch, Olivier Marchal, Olivier Perrier, Liliane Rovere

Country: Fr.

Year: 2008.

Duration: 96mins

Anything For Her skilfully builds tension

Anything for her: decently acted

By Derek Malcolm
5 Jun 2009

Fred Cavayé’s taut thriller stars Vincent Lindon as a schoolteacher whose wife (Diane Kruger) is accused of murdering her boss and gets sent away for 20 years.

We never know whether she killed the dead woman or not but a prelude suggests the husband might have been implicated.

But it doesn’t matter overmuch. The point of the film is his attempt to spring her from jail, which was apparently inspired by an ex-con who wrote a book on how to do it.

There’s nothing exceptional about any of this but it is well made, decently acted (Kruger is clearly a star in the making) and rachets up the tension with some skill.

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