So let me give that a shout-out - it opens this week in New York - while confessing that it's summer and we might all have a better time at a different French-language film, the cool and ingenious thriller "Rapt." Using a real-life 1970s celebrity kidnapping as his raw material, Belgian actor-director Lucas Belvaux (best known for his 2002 "Trilogy," three films with interlocking stories and characters) weaves a Hitchcockian fable around the kidnapping of fictional tycoon Stanislas Graff (suave French star Yvan Attal). Arguably, the arty little movie I should be covering this week is French auteur Catherine Breillat's "Sleeping Beauty," her latest mannered, crypto-erotic retake on a classic fairy tale (after the 2009 "Bluebeard").
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