Xavier Legrand disappoints with the story of a stylist confronted with the death of his estranged father. As there are few revelations in French cinema, after Up to the Guard, we watched The Successor like milk on the fire.
It starts off with a bang, however, with a fashion show where the models follow a spiral path (alluding to Kim Novak's bun in Vertigo?) The stylist greets his admirers while running. Big worries must be weighing him down, because he has a heart attack. It is unknown whether the two events are linked.