Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.
Direction
Du Welz's unrelenting atmosphere turns humidity into a character.
Acting
Béart's unraveling is genuinely disturbing — no vanity, all wreckage.
Cinematography
Jungle as purgatory: beautiful, suffocating, and morally rotting.
Director
Fabrice Du Welz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Du Welz shot in actual tsunami-affected regions, casting local non-actors who had lost homes — ethical debates around this production continue.
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