Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison.
Acting
Bonnaire's silent suffering could level buildings.
Direction
Mazuy lets guilt fester without a single melodramatic note.
Director
Patricia Mazuy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mazuy emerged from the 1980s French cinema scene that rejected glossy heritage films for working-class authenticity, earning comparisons to early Pialat.
Salomé Stévenin, playing young Anna, is the real daughter of co-star Jean-François Stévenin — the father-daughter tension on screen carries unsettling documentary weight.
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