The radiant French actress Elodie Bouchez, best known in the U.S. as the sane, likeable brunette half of the starring duo in The Dreamlife of Angels, is on screen for most of Clubbed to Death, and carries the picture. Her character Lola falls asleep on some French suburban bus and ends up in a desolate industrial district that happens to host a rave scene. She dances, pops her first ecstasy pill, is pleasantly and grossly groped, falls in love with brooding hipster Emir, and the scene shifts to Emir and his crowd. Drug deals and fight clubs ensue. Zauberman evokes the anonymous ambient frolicking of the rave well, and creates some interesting characters. But the film seems to suffer from the same drug-dragged impotence of its good-looking scenesters, failing to sustain a story long enough for filmic satisfaction.