Anything for Her (2008)

Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: Pour elle

Director: Fred Cavayé

Writers: Fred Cavayé, Guillaume Lemans

Cinematographer: Alain Duplantier

Composer: Klaus Badelt

Cast: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Olivier Marchal, Graia Hammou, Olivier Perrier, Moussa Maaskri, Alaa Oumouzoune

With his suicidal wife facing a 20-year sentence for a murder that she didn’t commit, Julien, an ordinary, middle-class teacher, slowly but surely concocts a plan to break her from prison and flee the country with their young son, in Cavayé’s gripping, convincingly acted, and surprisingly credible-feeling thriller. Iain.Stott