I want to watch this in 29 mins, ‘90s French film with Fanny Ardant, low budget, little daughter goes missing locally and mother then realised (after daughter is killed) that this is her teenage son because kidnappers were sending notes out of newspaper cut outs and she finds the cut-up papers in her son’s room. Short film, 90 mins max.

And of course I have a typo in the title, how annoying.

Edit: still want to watch this. Irritating to have forgotten the title as I first came across it on a different film forum (inferior of course) where someone was looking for it and it took absolute ages to be identified. I then watched it and now I’ve forgotten the title again and it’s not on any of my lists. 99 % sure it’s with Fanny and it’s definitely French. Letters put together out of cut out newspaper headlines get pushed through the door and then mother finds the newspaper scraps in son’s room and knows it’s him.