Mark Of An Angel (12A)

MARRIED your cousin? Had sex with an elephant? Had sex with your cousin who turned out to be a married elephant?

In the UK, you'd probably end up with £500 and a spread in Take A Break, but in France they'll make an art-house film about you.

Take Mark Of An Angel. This well-acted but unconvincing drama is based on a shocking true story about depressive divorcee Elsa (Catherine Frot) who's convinced her dead daughter is living with the family down the road.

Obsessing about her at the expense of her own son's welfare, Elsa makes friends with the mum of the family (Sandrine Bonnaire), spies on them, breaks into their house, smells the pillows and generally acts like a maniac.

It's a disturbing tale- made even more so by the secrets that surface later on, which you'd write off as unrealistic if they weren't, well, real.

The film deserves credit for making weirdo Elsa a sympathetic character. But you'll struggle to work out why either mum acts as they do. And if a true story doesn't ring true by the end, you've got problems.

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