An ordinary bakery beside a country road. Behind the counter stands Odile, so ordinary it hurts. One day, a gang of bikers stops in front of the bakery. The past will invade Odile's life, bringing with it her most violent memories. This confrontation slowly turns her life on its head.
Acting
Valérie Donzelli's face does decades of damage in seconds.
Direction
Delgéhier turns a bakery into a pressure cooker of dread.
Director
Bénédicte Delgéhier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Delgéhier uses the short format not as constraint but weapon: there's no time to recover between recognition and reckoning.
Valérie Donzelli later became a major French auteur; this early role shows the wounded intensity that would define her own directorial work.
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