Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques and Odile, a couple of friends. But when Jacques takes her home the next day, he is arrested by the police, who mistake him for Vassili. In reality, Vassili is a terrorist.
Acting
Yves Beneyton's escalating panic as the wrong man
Direction
Vidal's casual dread in bourgeois apartments
Writing
Screenplay's cruel coincidence engine
Director
Pascal Vidal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during France's 'years of lead' when urban terrorism felt like background radiation; the title's bitter irony lands harder knowing this history.
Christine Pascal co-wrote the screenplay, lending Anne's confusion an autobiographical sharpness rarely seen in male-directed thrillers of the era.