It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, Sylvette and Ulrich, are no longer such good friends. Everything is falling apart at the seams. But life is always full of surprises.
Acting
Karin Viard's spectacular slow-burn implosion.
Direction
Villacèque's surgical precision for social discomfort.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes passive aggression.
Director
Anne Villacèque
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Villacèque uses the 'weekend in the country' trope—popularized by 1960s French cinema—to dissect contemporary bourgeois malaise rather than romanticize it.
The supermarket parking lot confrontation was shot in a real Carrefour with hidden cameras; some reactions are genuine shoppers.
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