This French film is about a man whose 8-year-old daughter goes missing on the way to school and is found later in the worst way. He abducts the man who committed the crime (en route to jail/courthouse; it's pretty certain he did it though he has not been tried or sentenced yet) and decides to torture him to death over the course of (you guessed it) seven days and then turn himself in to the authorities. Meanwhile the ranking police officer who worked the case of the man's daughter is trying to find him, as much or more so to save the father as the original perpetrator.
I was bracing myself for this movie to be "torture porn", a sub-category of movies that have amped-up gruesomeness and just enough plot to keep it going, but was happy that this time it would be cathartic in that the victim of the torture would be a horrible horrible person rather than an innocent abductee. I was pleasantly surprised that the movie had a lot more depth and complexity than that.
I was bracing myself for this movie to be "torture porn", a sub-category of movies that have amped-up gruesomeness and just enough plot to keep it going, but was happy that this time it would be cathartic in that the victim of the torture would be a horrible horrible person rather than an innocent abductee. I was pleasantly surprised that the movie had a lot more depth and complexity than that.