Crossed Tracks

"Crossed Tracks" (Roman de gare, 2007) is a French thriller by Claude Lelouch you can watch online on iFILM. A celebrated novelist, played by Fanny Ardant, fields questions from a detective about a murder she may or may not have committed. Across town, a killer known as the Magician walks out of a Paris prison. On a rural highway, Dominique Pinon's mysterious stranger offers a stranded hairdresser — played by Audrey Dana — a lift she probably shouldn't accept.

Lelouch cuts between timelines and withholds identities until the final act. The pleasure is less in the solution and more in watching the pieces refuse to fit until they suddenly do. Stream "Crossed Tracks" online on iFILM.