Keep it Quiet

Perhaps the most perfectly nuanced film Jacquot has ever made. The story works in the time-honored tradition of Tennyson’s Enoch Arden. Fabrice Luchini’s businessman Grégoire has just done an undeserved stretch in the penitentiary for some sordid white-collar family business, but given his newfound hyper-awareness of the world and the way his wife (Huppert) and brother (Lindon) tiptoe around him, he might as well be returning from the dead. Keep It Quiet hides the particulars of many of its plot entanglements in order to concentrate on the complex emotions entangling its characters.