Synopsis
Anything for Her (Pour elle, 2008) is a French thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Fred Cavayé opens the film on an ordinary morning: the police come for Lisa (Diane Kruger), charge her with murder and hand down a twenty-year sentence. Her husband Julien, a French teacher with no useful connections, is certain she did not do it.
Vincent Lindon carries the film on the simple fact that Julien is nobody special. He has no skills for what he is about to attempt. That gap between what a person is capable of and what he forces himself to do is where all the tension lives. Their small son Oscar is watching.
The script was considered strong enough to be remade in Hollywood as The Next Three Days with Russell Crowe — the original is tighter. Cavayé builds pressure from domestic details rather than set-pieces. Stream Anything for Her (2008) online on iFILM.
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