![]() Stopping along the way at places where people seem to recognize her from before, Dany can’t shake the sensation that she’s losing her mind, that there’s a part of herself she has been suppressing until now. Something comes over her once they leave her, however, and after having a drink at the airport bar, she decides to let her wild side get the better of her and head to the south instead of back to Paris. This is potentially why she’s willing to go along with just about anything Michel and Anita ask of her, evidently, as they insist that she drive them and their daughter to Orly so she can take the Thunderbird back afterward. After all, there is something about being insecure regarding one’s looks that can make a girl feel a bit batty. Upon realizing that his interest is all in her head, Dany goes somewhat crazy on a seeming split personality level. When Michel requests her help with a project that requires her to work the kind of overtime that will necessitate her spending the night, she assumes that he’s expressing an interest in her in spite of the fact that he’s married to a former co-worker of hers, Anita (Stacy Martin). Set presumably some time in the 1970s, based on the music and car choice, the strange tale centers on mousy secretary Dany Dorémus (Freya Mavor), a shy type with a bit of a crush on her boss, Michel Caravaille (Benjamin Biolay). ![]() Based on a novel by Sébastien Japrisot (who wrote the script for the original), the movie tries its best to veer toward the genre of thriller, instead resulting in a glorified ad for the French coast and Thunderbirds. ![]() I’ve never seen the sea.” It is this logic that guides the heroine of the remake of the 1970 German film The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun to take a roundabout journey in a car that doesn’t belong to her. ![]()
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