Leos Carax’s dreamlike drama sharply divided critics at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and UK audiences should react with similar passion or disdain to the French writer-director’s surreal vision.

Pop star Kylie Minogue said she “stripped herself of being Kylie” for her role in a new sci-fi fantasy alongside Eva Mendes.

Amalric, soon to be seen as the latest 007 baddie, stars in this excellent French thriller with a strong battle of wits as its core, that between Amalric and Lonsdale as the former thinks he has discovered something with a nasty Nazi secret going on in the corporation he works for.