Whats the matter with these filmmakers ? Exposing children to the smoke and what for? If "The Locksmith" offers anything new, it's in neutering the genre. There's a femme fatale in all this, but seduction is not her specialty or a part of her scheme. Phillippe's character is never motivated by anything resembling amour fou or even lust; he's solely interested in reconstructing the family he lost. Which means, in part, teaching his now 12-year-old daughter Lindsay (played by Madeleine Guilbot, and, yes, the character's full name IS Lindsay Graham) how to pick locks. Cute. And, by Chekhov, perhaps even useful in the climactic scene! A scene incidentally, whose message can be read as taking the position that you ought never send a man in to do a woman's job. So that's different, yes. If only the filmmakers had put it across with a little more enthusiasm.
Review of The Locksmith
