Rapt (R) 7.0

Rapt (2009): A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro. (6.7)

Director: Lucas Belvaux
Writer: Lucas Belvaux
Stars: Yvan Attal, Anne Consigny, André Marcon
Language: French (w/ English subtitles)

Yes, this is a kidnap-and-ransom movie but there are quite a lot of lives, back-stories, interests, and perspectives involved in the telling of the tale. What captures you right from the start is the nice camera/editing work, specially used to quickly establish our aristocratic power broker's baseline life. The bigger story, and the message, is how various people look at this life of the "innocent" guy who got kidnapped, after all the stories of his excesses come out. You almost feel sorry for him and start to empathize but then the at the end we truly see who he really is and always was. A nicely delivered thriller. My Rating: 7.0