THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH
by Pawel Pawlikowski
Synopsis: American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don’t go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet. Then Margot, a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events, as if an obscure power was taking control of his life…
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig
2011 / France, UK, Poland / 85 min
Produced by Haut et Court and Film4
“A bewildering, Kafkaesque conundrum set in the murky shadows of an unfamiliar Paris”
— Screen Daily
“Film reminds us of the early Polanski’s films like Knife in the water, Cul-de-sac”
— Télérama
