Drop your kid at school. Drive to the airport. Never come back.
A couple leaves their child at kindergarten one Friday morning. The child's grandmother will pick the child up in the evening and look after him during the weekend. The parents are going on a journey to another country.
Acting
Mouglalis and Goven's silent car tension is masterclass.
Direction
Benchetrit lets dread accumulate through mundanity.
Director
Samuel Benchetrit
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Benchetrit adapted this from his own novel, reportedly inspired by witnessing a parental meltdown at his child's school. The film deliberately withholds backstory—Mona and Daniel's catastrophe remains unnamed, forcing viewers to project their own marital anxieties.
Released the same year as 'Force Majeure,' forming an accidental diptych of European cinema exploring masculine cowardice and family collapse. Where Östlund went satirical, Benchetrit went mournful.
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