Frenchman Xavier Legrand pleasantly surprised seven years ago with his debut film Shared Custody, a drama about divorce with a violent father involved. With his second feature film, The Successor, he once again delves into family conflicts, this time with a son who has become an acclaimed artistic director of a Parisian fashion house and is told of the death of his estranged parent. .
Elias Barnès, played by a solvent Marc-André Grondin, will discover to his horror on his return to the family home in Montreal one of his father’s best kept secrets. After some accidents in which he will be involved, he will realize that he has inherited something more than a delicate heart. The film is a dark thriller with horror overtones that exhibits too many absurd script twists that stun the viewer.
