Premonition (Le Pressentiment) (2006)

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French acting mainstay Jean-Pierre Darroussin stars and makes his directorial debut with this offbeat French drama. For Charles (Darroussin), life has become synonymous with bourgeois imprisonment. Married to a snotty art maven-cum-socialite on the ritzy Right Bank, he longs to escape from the… More French acting mainstay Jean-Pierre Darroussin stars and makes his directorial debut with this offbeat French drama. For Charles (Darroussin), life has become synonymous with bourgeois imprisonment. Married to a snotty art maven-cum-socialite on the ritzy Right Bank, he longs to escape from the social shackles that confine him. In a moment of complete desperation, Charles drops out and moves into a humble apartment situated in a multi-ethnic neighborhood. Ostensibly, he's moved there to do some writing, and virtually seals himself off from the outside world altogether, but the neighbors make that a veritable impossibility - especially after a gorilla named Tomas (Ivan Franek) beats his unfaithful wife within an inch of brain damage and thus loses control of his sexy teenage daughter Sabrina (Amandine Janin). Lo and behold, she winds up in the custody of Charles, along with a seamstress, Isabelle (Valerie Stroh) who has taken a job as a nanny/guardian for her. This film sports an unusual denouement; after Charles falls ill in the story, the motion picture lapses into "parallel realities," thus presenting multiple alternate endings concurrently. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi