Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool) is up to his dirty tricks again and this time round, it’s a thoroughly immersive psychological thriller which cleverly interplays the narrative and meta-narrative girds of a traditional screenplay. Audiences are never quite sure where the film is taking us and it’s the unrelenting suspense (Will be there sex? Violence? Murder?) which makes In the House all the more intriguing.

Unsentimental and unflinching in its study of love of an elderly couple, Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winning Amour is a quietly devastating memento mori of a life lived. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva give flawlessly nuanced performances as Georges and Anne, retired music teachers in their 80s, living in a beautifully furnished, book-lined Paris apartment with a baby grand piano.