Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.
Acting
Deneuve treating absurdity like Shakespeare—never winks at the camera.
Direction
Mocky's Hitchcock obsession cranked to eleven, then broken.
Production
That bus underwater? Practical nightmare you can't look away from.
Director
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mocky filmed the bus underwater sequence in a single day after the original location flooded unexpectedly—he kept the footage.
This was Catherine Deneuve's 'paying rent' period between masterpieces, yet she still commits harder than most actors do to Oscar bait.
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