The Key (2007 film)

The Key is a 2007 French thriller film directed by Guillaume Nicloux.

Plot

Eric Vincent is in his thirties and lives an uneventful life with his wife Audrey. They are talking about having a child. Eric is contacted by a friend of his biological father he never knew about the latter's death. Eric can come and collect his father's ashes. He is reluctant but then accepts.

Cast

Guillaume Canet as Éric Vincent
Marie Gillain as Audrey
Vanessa Paradis as Cécile
Josiane Balasko as Michèle Varin
Thierry Lhermitte as François Maneri
Jean Rochefort as Joseph Arp
Françoise Lebrun as Florence Arp
Maria Schneider as Solange
Pascal Bonitzer as Jean
Marina de Van as Sophie
Yves Verhoeven as Pujol
Laure Marsac as Florence
Michaël Abiteboul as Thierry
Gilles Cohen as Larue
Hélène Alexandridis as Muriel
Jean-Louis Coulloc'h as Worzik
Nicolas Jouhet as Ariel Bessy
Sylvain Creuzevault as Greg
Luc Schwarz as Luc
Mathieu Nicourt as Christophe
Martial Bezot as Simon
Olivier Rabourdin as The tattooist

Production

The Key closes the dark and complex detective trilogy of William Nicloux. We find in this film, in supporting roles populating the parallel plots that Eric Vincent, the characters of François Maneri, the investigator of a private matter, Une affaire privée, and Michèle Varin, the police captain in That Woman, the second part.