Anything for her (Pour Elle)

Hazel managed to get a babysitter ( for 5 quid an hour!!! -I have told her I would do it ANYTIME!) anyway, we joined the usual smattering of schoolteachers (and the former owner of Prestatyn's only bookshop) for another subtitled film at the Scala. Pour elle (2008) is a solid, old fashioned and enjoyable thriller in the will-they?/won't they school of film narrative.
The story is pacy. A French school teacher's life is totally turned upside down when his wife is unjustly imprisoned for murder. With no legal avenues available to him for her release, he hatches an elaborate plan to save her.
Yes, it sounds good and for the most part , it is good, although I do feel that director Fred Cavayé could have played with the audience some more by stressing the ambiguity of the wife's guilt rather than give the facts of the murder away a half hour into the movie.
Vincent Lindon, gives a tortured performance as the ordinary man pushed to extraordinary lengths by circumstances out of his control and the beautiful Diane Kruger is quietly effective as his broken wife, both actors are eminently watchable and it is down to their talents that by the end of the movie the audience is rooting for both to escape into the sunset!
8/10