The Woman in the Fifth

The Woman in the Fifth French original title La femme du Vme is a 2011 FrenchBritishPolish drama film directed and written by Pawe Pawlikowski. Adapted from Douglas Kennedys 2007 novel of the same name, the film centers on a divorced American writer Ethan Hawke who moves to Paris to be closer to his young daughter. As he embarks on an affair with a mysterious widow Kristin Scott Thomas, a dark force seems to be taking control of his life.

Toms relationship with Ania eventually becomes a sexual affair, and his neighbor blackmails him about it. Shortly after the neighbor is killed, his daughter goes missing, and Tom begins to believe that a dark force has entered his life, punishing anyone who has recently done him wrong. After the police accuse him of murdering his neighbor, Tom tries to use his weekly visits to Margits apartment as an alibi. The police check and find out that she died and hasnt lived at this address for the pastyears. He is let go, after the police determines that the murderer was in fact the owner of the hostel. When the two meet in the corridor of the police station, one is led to believe that somebody planted evidence to frame the owner of the hostel.He continues the affair with Ania, but also decides to encounter Margit again, and tells her she is not real. She says she is the most real love hell encounter in his life, and that she knows him from the inside. She tells him to lose his muse and say goodbye to his wife and daughter. They embrace and he accuses her of having done something with his daughter, and he starts to choke her. His daughter is eventually found wandering in the forest, and is reunited with her mother. ........

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