i watch this film not expect much and not know anything much about it . i love it . a very good and tight plot and an intriguing hook in the form of the ugly and fat and deaf girl and the ex con and and a pace that keep thing flow without be hurry . a much and much good film than the same director de battre mon coeur sest arreté and which be bore and unbelievable . the only thing that do not quite work be that the supposedly ugly and fat girl be neither ugly nor fat represent solid and certainly and and far from conventionally beautiful and but with so much character in her face that she take over the screen whenever she be on it . superb . i wish she be in more film and and good one than she generally be . i have see a bit of gilles wife and a bit of the moustache and and they both look like rubbish and and i have see all of de battre mon coeur sest arreté and and that certainly be rubbish . she seem to have a few come up and so i will keep my finger cross .