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I rather like this attempt at a Shya­malanesque thriller by direc­tor Manon Briand. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it’s way too slow-mov­ing to sat­is­fy a big audi­ence, and it telegraphs its end­ing. It focus­es on a seis­mol­o­gist, long exiled to Japan, who returns to the town of her birth, Baie-Comeau (on the remote North Shore coast of Que­bec) to inves­ti­gate some anom­alies. The town is haunt­ed by the death of a woman in a freak acci­dent, and is full of psy­cho­log­i­cal, as well as phys­i­cal anom­alies. While the film is weak as dra­ma, it is delight­ful visu­al­ly and sen­su­al­ly. Both the hero­ine, Alice Bradley (played by Pas­cales Buis­sière) and her jeal­ous les­bian friend (played by Julie Goyet) are extreme­ly beautiful.