A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège when his van breaks down. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog then leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
Acting
Jackie Berroyer's skin-crawling fragility-to-menace turn.
Direction
Du Welz weaponizes awkward silence like nobody else.
Cinematography
Grey Belgian swamp as suffocating liminal space.
Director
Fabrice Du Welz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Du Welz and Lucas reunited for 2014's 'Alleluia,' another killer-couple folie à deux.
Part of the 'New French Extremity' wave, though Belgian—shares DNA with 'High Tension' and 'Inside.'
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