Eleven minutes. Four corpses. One very dirty truck. What could go wrong?
A deserted secondary road under a blazing sun. A 50 year-old peasant driving a very dirty pick-up truck. The discovery of four corpses along the road.
Acting
Nahon's wordless menace in under 10 minutes
Direction
Vallespi's suffocating heat-haze tension
Cinematography
That sun-blasted D77 road becomes a character
Director
Paul Vallespi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on actual Route D77 in the Var department; locals reportedly avoided the crew for weeks after.
Part of the 'New French Extremity' micro-short wave that rejected the country's traditional humanist cinema—Vallespi never made another film.
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