La Mort Viendra is a film about the last things, about ideas that no longer belong to our world. Berlin School director Christoph Hochhäusler makes his first French language film, a Eurogangster thriller set in present-day Brussels. The main character Tez (Sophie Verbeek), is a hitwoman who is tasked with finding the murderer of a courier who was killed under mysterious circumstances in Luxembourg. The courier, who was traveling with a valuable Italian painting and a hidden sum of money, was shot after paying his bail while staying in a hotel with an electronic anklet. The aging gangster boss Charles Mahr (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) wants Tez to catch the murderer. Christoph Hochhäusler’s enduring fascination with urban architecture takes on a striking new dimension in La Mort Viendra. The Brussels he captures alongside cinematographer Reinhold Vorschneider is stripped of any glamour or sophistication. Through an evocative chiaroscuro aesthetic, characters navigate abandoned factories, shadowy courtyards, cramped bars, and bleak underground garages. These atmospheric “moody places” create an ideal setting for a crime story steeped in the mysterious workings of the criminal underworld. Beneath the surface, the film offers a poignant critique of the legacy of aging white men desperately clinging to their relevance—a pursuit destined to fail in Hochhäusler’s stark, unfeeling world. A masterful genre piece, La Mort Viendra premiered in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival.