Perfect Timing for Writer-Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner on his ‘Dark Places’

When French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner decided to follow his modest Holocaust drama Sarah’s Key with an adaptation of a nourish American novel he liked, no one took much notice. And then Gillian Flynn followed Dark Places with Gone Girl, which became a literary sensation and David Fincher’s next A-list project, and suddenly Paquet-Brenner’s movie was a lot …