Who You Think I Am

Things are often not what they seem in the cinema of Safy Nebbou, and this adaptation of Camille Laurens's bestseller follows Angel of Mine and Dumas in centring on a misconception. Aspiring photographer Alex (François Civil) thinks he's flirting on Facebook with a chic fashion student named Clara, but he's actually being duped by Claire (Juliette Binoche), a 50-something literature teacher and divorced mother who has reason to be angry with him. As with any catfishing story, a certain suspension of disbelief is required if viewers are to go along with plot twists that err more towards M Night Shyamalan than Alfred Hitchcock. But, as the sometimes dissembling Claire tries to justify her actions to a knowing psychoanalyst (Nicole Garcia), it's impossible not to get sucked into the social media nightmare that unfolds, which is made all the more excruciating by the exceptional performances.