The Soul Easter follows a familiar route within the crime drama genre, but doesn’t manage to stand out. It begins promisingly with a bizarre and unsettling sequence of crimes occurring in a quiet French village; however, the narrative progresses toward an ending that feels disappointingly foreseeable and somewhat lacking in depth. Maybe "nothing" is all that remains for the central character, but it's clear th…

Paul Hamy portrays “Franck,” who is traveling toward a small French village when Virginie Ledoyen’s character, "Elisabeth," gives him a ride. It's revealed that she's an officer tasked with investigating a pair of murders, while he’s a captain in the gendarmerie pursuing missing children—a search that brought him to this seemingly quiet community. The film evokes echoes of “Doctor Sleep” (2019), as the village sits u…