After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman develops an unsettling secret relationship with her own body in which pain is pleasure, mutilation is love and hungers of the flesh have a mind of their own.
Acting
De Van directs herself into total physical commitment.
Direction
Clinical detachment that makes the horror land harder.
Writing
No exposition, just escalating private ritual.
Director
Marina de Van
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
New French Extremity's rare female auteur—de Van wrote for Ozon before carving her own visceral lane.
The corporate setting isn't backdrop; Esther's marketing job selling 'experience' mirrors her own commodified self-harm.
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