A treasure hunt so slow the mafia can't catch them — speed is overrated anyway.
Alex, a professional tourist guide, is asked to welcome Sacha,a young woman of Russian extraction. She has participated in a contest and, consequently, won a one-week stay in Geneva. From the outset, the young woman shakes up Alex's plans and drags him along with her through a risky and hazardous treasure-hunt at the confines of Eastern Switzerland. Wanted by the police and hunted down by the mafia, Alex and Sacha decide to shake off their pursuers by moving about more slowly than the others: they then advance through lakes and other roundabout ways. While Alex and Sacha sink deeply into an ever stranger Switzerland, they will observe, discover, oppose and finally love each other to the vanishing point.
Acting
Amalric's frazzled everyman meets Batinova's magnetic chaos.
Direction
Marzal makes Switzerland feel alien and intimate simultaneously.
Cinematography
Lakes and liminal spaces shot like half-remembered dreams.
Director
François-Christophe Marzal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maria Schneider, who plays Anna, was the iconic Jeanne from 'Last Tango in Paris' — her presence here carries ghostly weight.
The film deliberately subverts Swiss cinematic clichés of precision and order, embracing instead a messy, porous borderland identity.
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