Zlotowski, working from a script that she wrote with Anne Berest, persuasively establishes the coordinates of Lilian’s cosseted, oh-so-proper haute bourgeois life with illuminating details. Everything gleams in this woman’s world, from her smart, perfect bob to the luxurious surfaces in her spacious apartment and the leather chair where she sits as her patients share their deepest and most banal concerns. Her nice, organized world begins to fall to pieces, though, when she learns that Paula has died, perhaps by suicide. Lilian is shaken by the death; she also takes it personally. “I never detected the slightest suicidal thought,” she tells her ex-husband, Gabriel (Daniel Auteuil), before confiding she suspects foul play.