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The Big Picture

Getting the Life You Want Means Losing the Life You Have.

2010 · 1h 54m · NOT RATED Thriller
Directed by Eric Lartigau

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Overview

Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.

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88%
Tomatometer
Fresh

"The Big Picture" ends perhaps a bit too ambiguously, but there's something refreshing about its faith in the moviegoer's intelligence.

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh

Director Eric Lartigau tells the story slowly, less interested in suspense than in character.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh

Takes familiar material - involving a violent crime and an assumed identity - and nudges it just enough to keep us interested for most of the ride.

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

It moves, with supple muscularity, toward a twisty and satisfying conclusion.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh

Duris is excellent, his hair and eyes growing wilder with each step of the journey, and he has solid support ...

Ty Burr, Boston Globe

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