Málaga, southern Spain. Seven men, divided into four cars, set off with a large drug shipment towards Creil, a city near Paris; a routine mission that will be complicated by a fatal sequence of events.
Direction
Schoendoerffer's claustrophobic car choreography
Acting
Magimel's quietly disintegrating alpha male
Cinematography
Highway hypnosis meets sun-baked dread
Director
Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schoendoerffer shot the highway sequences with minimal permits, using real French autoroutes during dawn hours to capture that grey morning light.
The film quietly maps post-2015 European anxieties onto its criminal underworld — border checkpoints, ethnic distrust, and the collapse of brotherhood as social contract.
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