here they are again:André Dussolier and Marthe Keller.The French audience may remember they had teamed up in Claude Lelouch's almost prophetic "Toute Une Vie" .Watching them together is a strange experience.Aurore Clement ("Lacombe Lucien") is also part of the cast.
"Cortex" depicts a gloomy atmosphere with a certain success;the patients are treated like big babies,they have to swallow their sleeping pills under the nurses' watchful eye and they do not have much time to think.
Unfortunately,the plot is not really original :borrowing from HG Clouzot's "Les Espions" and Alain Jessua 's "Traitement De Choc" and repeating the same pattern as MTV "Carte Vermeille " (about an home for retired people),the ending is neither surprising nor suspenseful;one should note that "Carte Vermeille' had been written by first-class Boileau/Narcejac team;none of the writers can write a murder mystery as they did .
Watch it for the cast:you will understand the very meaning of the title in the last lines.