Genealogies of a Crime (Généalogies d'un Crime, France 1997)

Director Raoul Ruiz likes to confuse viewers, at least make them thing throughout his films. The story is based on the real life and works of psychoanalyst Hermione Helmut van Hug, who worked with children. She went so far as to determine that her nephew would be a killer someday, and at the end his nephew actually killed her for reasons that will remain unknown. Ruiz takes this interesting premise and creates the story of Solange, played by Catherine Deneuve. She is known for losing all her cases, but she decides to take one case that resembles Helmut van Hug's. There is a Parapsychologist Group involved who tries to convince Solange that the killer is someone else. The whole movie shifts from real-life to dreams, without really telling the audience what is real and what is not. There is also a hint of what I call "absurd cinema" like the great movies of Luis Buñuel that he made in France.