SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS (Vergil Vernier 2018)

Though in the Rendez-Vous schedule this is a Film Comment Selects film. Not in the same vein, but in French.
Vernier makes edgy studies of urban anomie using non-actors and unrelated material to convey a sense of danger. His earlier film, MERCURIALES (ND/NF 2015) didn't quite cohere; it exhibited a prurient interest in nubile young women. This one is more substantial, but still at the end did not add up for me. Beautiful nude young women are in the first frames, by the way.