Critics reviews

[A] low-key, carefully crafted and involving tale... [Duris] delivers a potent, controlled performance whose self-containment always feels threatened by the possibility of explosion... The result is tense and very rewarding.

Senez and Jean Denizot’s subtle screenplay doesn’t presume familiarity with the legal issues at play here... Nor do they resort to an expository info-dump of facts... At its best, the storytelling here is highly skilled, gradually peeling back the layers to give a lived-in feel to the slow-motion car crash that has derailed Jay’s life.

“A Missing Part” doesn’t deliberately pull on the heartstrings because it doesn’t need to. The sheer injustice of Jay’s plight is provocative enough, and Senez is smart to keep these punchy scenes to a minimum in order to maximize their impact without resorting to easy sentimentality.

Buoyed by a super-efficient screenplay... [which] takes a chiaroscuro path towards a resolution that’s as luminous as it is doomed from the outset, A Missing Part explores both a father’s obsession and the irreconcilable otherness of a foreigner or stranger.