A force to be reckoned with when on form, Claire Denis comes unstuck with this drearily angst-ridden tale of suicide, sexual violence and incestuous strife, which takes inspiration from Faulkner's Sanctuary and Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well. Apparently. Vincent Lindon growls his way through the role of a ship's captain back on dry land to investigate and avenge the death of his brother-in-law and the decline of his niece. A needlessly jumbled narrative (Denis calls it "a succession of leaps") attempts to add a veneer of profundity to the sordid stodge.