You may remember her as Gerard Depardieu's melancholic wife and Patrick Dewaere's lover in Bertrand Blier's Oscar-winning Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978).

The sheer magic of international casting led her to meet the great Greek tragedian Irene Papas in Michael Cacoyannis's Sweet Country (1985), about the Chilean dictatorship.

Actress/singer/dancer Carole Laure is probably the best reason for watching Lewis Furey's latest cinematic venture, about 6 people stomping through lust, dreams and delusions and a most outrageous serial killer mystery in ramshackle downtown.

Lewis Furey, whose filmography seems to allow him to tackle almost any kind of cinematic experiments (Shadow Dancing is a supernatural thriller, Shades of Love an improbable gay romance), certainly took a great sadistic pleasure in letting his camera whirl around his character's intertwined obsessions, but his mind-boggling efforts eventually lead to nothing more than a big boisterous and gory whirligig leaving the viewer mindless and exhausted.

Worth the ride though, for Laure's dazzling whirls and whisks, and Nigel Bennet's whiplash tongue.

Robin Gatto