RAVE - Point Blank

In my single-handed quest to get my friends and family to see more foreign-language films, I trudged out tonight to see the truly outstanding Point Blank, a French story about a male nurse whose wife is abducted in order to persuade him to get a criminal out of the hospital where we works.

I've often tried to distill the essence from foreign-language movies - work out what exactly it is that makes them pound-for-pound (euro for euro, or maybe kilo for kilo?) better than their Hollywood equivalents.

Maybe it's that extra bit of concentration needed to follow the story, and the subtitles. Or maybe it's that they're no so annoyingly obvious in the way they're constructed. Whatever it is, this one's a corker.