It's odd to find Danis Tanovic, Oscar-winning director of the spiky war film No Man's Land, taking on this rather ponderous French art film in which three angst-ridden sisters suffer en route to digging up the family secret at the root of their distress.

The most memorable scene comes right at the start as a passerby carefully replaces a cuckoo chick that has fallen out of a nest, enabling it to complete its task of kicking out the nest's rightful inhabitants, a metaphor for a fractured family life.

Tanovic is taking on the second part of what would have been a trilogy by the late writer-director Krzysztof Kieslowski (Tom Tykwer directed the first). Referencing Greek mythology, it all seems too glossily precious to grip, though there's nothing wrong with the acting.

Two oddities: this is the second film with the same title (Hell/L'Enfer) to star Emmanuelle Béart after Chabrol's 1995 effort; and it's strange to find two ex-Bond girls in such an austere film - Maryam d'Abo's easy, but full marks if you spot Carole Bouquet as the family's demonic mother.