After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that's populated by free-spirited women.
Direction
Bonello's hypnotic long takes that refuse to explain themselves
Acting
Amalric's perfect unraveling of a man who forgot how to want
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like philosophy seminar as foreplay
Director
Bertrand Bonello
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Guillaume Depardieu died shortly after filming; his performance as the commune's dying patriarch became unintentionally elegiac.
Bonello loosely adapted from Carl von Clausewitz's military treatise—yes, really—using 'war' as metaphor for internal conflict against capitalist productivity.
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