Contre toi (Lola Doillon, 2010)

Kristin Scott Thomas is an actress with great range from restrained and fragile to coldly calculating, and will always be worth watching, but In Your Hands is something of a misstep as film choices go. We see her at first making a dash out of a house where she has been held captive, and then the story rewinds to explain how she was kidnapped and the period of her captivity. The idea that a sort of mutual Stockholm syndrome develops between her, an emotionally isolated doctor, and her captor, an aggrieved husband of one of her former patients, is an interesting one, but ultimately not psychologically convincing, and the apparent determination of the director to provide her with closure against any logical plot progression is frustrating.

5/10