New Trailer for The Woman in the Fifth, Adapted from the Novel by Douglas Kennedy

A new UK trailer for the French film adaptation of The Woman in the Fifth, the 2007 novel of suspense by Douglas Kennedy, has been released; we've embedded it below.

Released late last year as La femme du Vème, the film stars Ethan Hawke, who flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job, only to meet a woman, who may be involved in a series of murders.

Here's the synopsis from the book, which was published in the US last summer by Atria: Harry Ricks (Ethan Hawke in the film) is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job, his marriage, and the love of his only child. Hounded by scandal, he flees to Paris, where a series of accidental encounters lands him in a grubby room with a job as night watchman for a sinister operation. Just when he begins to think he has hit rock bottom, romance enters his life in the form of Margit — a cultivated, widowed Hungarian émigré who shares Harry’s profound loneliness but who keeps her distance, remaining guarded about her past. As Harry wrestles with Margit’s reticence, he begins to notice that all those who have recently done him wrong are meeting unfortunate ends — and it soon becomes apparent that he has stumbled into a nightmare from which there is no escape.

ATO Pictures has acquired the rights to the film, but no release date has been scheduled for the US. It opens in UK theaters February 17th, 2012.