HIFF Spotlight Film: "The Woman in the Fifth"

The US Premiere of "The Woman in the Fifth" or "La Femme Du Veme" will be shown first at the Southampton Cinema on Oct. 14 at 9:30 p.m. and then in East Hampton Cinema on Oct. 16 at 2:30 p.m. It will be preceded by the short, "The Third One This Week."

Screenwriter: Pawel Pawlikowski
Producers: Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke, Joanna Kulig, Samir Guesmi

The festival said, "Ethan Hawke delivers a career-topping performance in Pawel Pawlikowski’s eerily captivating new film. An American writer, Tom Ricks (Hawke, in a French- and English-speaking role), moves to Paris to be closer to his young daughter, though Ricks’ ex-wife forbids him to visit. Wandering about the city, he’s eventually robbed and left penniless. He stumbles upon a run-down inn where the proprietor offers him a room and a shady job in an underground bunker. With its evocative lensing and elliptical rhythms, THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH casts an unsettling spell on the viewer, suggesting a mysterious undercurrent to the film’s events and foreshadowing a shocking climax."

Run Time: 83 minutes