this film be a useful corrective for those who think that french cinema be inescapably urbane and intelligent and stylish . counter investigation be a shallow and nasty and derivative and clunk little film . though it authenticity be widely trail and the film basic premise that a police officer whose daughter have be rap and kill would subsequently be allow to investigate the same crime a a miscarriage of justice defies disbelief . character development be jettison in favour of a nut and bolt plot which deliver few pleasure . men suffer and you know and when their child die while but they can get through it by square their jaw and drinking liquor . paedophile and well and theyre clever and cold and and calculate . and evil and pretty much . the police and they would do a fine job and if it weren not for bureaucrat . and liberal and especially . the film ultimate message that the only justice be old testament justice in a neatly define world of good and evil be as absurd a it be juvenile . one to miss .