A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.
Acting
Lafont and Ogier's unhinged physical commitment to pure anarchy.
Score
Tusques' explosive free jazz soundtrack as third protagonist.
Direction
Baratier's blurred line between performance and destruction.
Director
Jacques Baratier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 1968 aftermath cinema movement — radical French filmmakers rejecting narrative coherence for political and aesthetic rebellion.
Fernando Arrabal, who plays the trap salesman, was a leading figure in the Panic Movement alongside Jodorowsky — his presence signals the film's theatrical anarchy roots.
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