As Holocaust dramas go, the advantage to this film is that, ultimately, it's a psychological study.

Thanks to its actors, there’s a credibly heavy sense of the personal prisons within literal ones that only a wretched war can foster.

The bleak setting of Paris backstreets in this nightmare period is beautifully evoked in the photography by Denis Rouden and the production design by Philippe Chiffre.

The psychological thriller dramatizes a morally complex and compelling Faustian narrative that touches on the power dynamics underlying class and gender inequality, antisemitism and, most central, the brutality of the Nazi regime.