Your dad's new friends are weird, the VHS is weirder, and that wounded biker at the door? Yeah, run.
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in history and has a good friend, Frédéric, a medical student who wouldn't mind being more than just that. Around her, strange fellows attract her attention. Who is Philippe, allegedly Louis's stockbroker? And what about Marguerite who presents herself as her father's former secretary? Even more puzzling is the video cassette she finds in her father's place, showing young motorbikers distributing bundles of banknotes. Some time later, Charles, one of the bikers appearing on the video, rings the doorbell: he is wounded.
Cinematography
Glossy surfaces hiding rot, very 1985
Acting
Victoria Abril's slippery charm, Fabrice Luchini's nervous energy
Director
Pierre Zucca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Pierre Zucca cast his own son Jérôme as the wounded biker Charles, and Laetitia Léotard is Philippe Léotard's actual daughter—family affair both on and off screen.
This belongs to a wave of 1980s French cinema obsessed with morally bankrupt bourgeois families, where young protagonists discover their parents' world is built on crime. Think Rivette meets Chabrol's chillier moments.
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