After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking man takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed Luc's sexual appetite.
Direction
Ozon's early, nasty period before he got polite.
Cinematography
Forest as fever dream, all green rot and golden light.
Acting
Manojlović's feral tenderness, Renier's devastating pliability.
Director
François Ozon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1990s French cinéma du corps — films obsessed with bodies pushed to extremes, often violently erotic.
Ozon has called this his 'unconscious film' — the fairy tale structure emerged without planning, revealing his own uncomfortable fantasies about desire and punishment.
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