Fresh
"Rapt'' is smooth, cool, and efficient. It's a movie with very little wasted motion - or, for much of its length, wasted emotion.
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Rapt
Paying his ransom won't bury his secrets.
2009 · 2h 5m · Not Rated
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Lucas Belvaux
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Lucas Belvaux Director
- Yvan Attal as Stanislas Graff
- Anne Consigny as Françoise Graff
- Françoise Fabian as Marjorie
- André Marcon as André Peyrac
- Alex Descas as Maître Walser
- Michel Voïta as Commissaire Paoli
- Maxime Lefrançois as Bertaux
- Christophe Kourotchkine as Jean-Jacques Garnier
- Sarah Messens as Véronique Graff
- Julie Kaye as Martine Graff
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
What lends "Rapt" its fascination is that it represents such a dramatic fall from grace for its hero.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
"Rapt" fuses strands of dramatic tension in a shrewd enough way that it even saves its sharpest cuts for the kidnapping's aftermath, when a well-heeled life laid bare must reconcile with a much different form of enforced solitude.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
What distinguishes "Rapt" from other kidnapping movies is that, virtually as soon as he is abducted, details of his life start coming out.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Both a compelling character study and a handsomely mounted procedural, at various times suggesting Hitchcock, his French acolyte Claude Chabrol, the sadistic TV series "24" and the action movies of Michael Mann.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
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