Mathieu Kassovitz's The Crimson Rivers is an engrossing, if somewhat old fashioned, detective thriller that's four parts whodunit and six parts whydunit.

It's intricately crafted in that it grabs the viewer's attention with the most grisly of crimes and then holds it with a number of escalating twists, turns, coincidences and surprises.
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There's a lot going on in The Crimson Rivers -- issues of identity, creepy academics, dead bodies, mountain climbing, desecrated graves, blind nuns and two French detectives. And a partridge in a pear tree.

This somewhat over-complicated French thriller stars Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel as the detectives. The Crimson Rivers is a bit outside what's generally on offer from French filmmakers, and to North American eyes there is not much new going on here. Nonetheless, Reno and Cassel make it worth watching.
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