A psychoanalyst gives a strange advice to a mechanic whose marriage is falling apart: to take the blame for a murder, any murder, to impress his beautiful and indifferent wife, and his patient does just that.
Acting
François Berléand commits fully to pathetic desperation.
Writing
Premise so wrong it circles back to darkly funny.
Direction
Deruddere keeps absurdity grounded in emotional truth.
Director
Dominique Deruddere
François Berléand
François, le garagiste
Nadia Farès
Julie, la femme de François
Samuel Le Bihan
Vincent Moreau, le psy
Olivier Gourmet
Martial, le flic
Lorànt Deutsch
Jean, le mécanicien
Cécile Cassel
Mireille, la majorette
Stéphane De Groodt
Le patron de café
Harry Cleven
Maurice Weckmann
Anne Kessler
Mme Weckman
Lucy Russell
Eve, l'avocate
Catherine Salviat
La dame patronesse
Georges Siatidis
Le chauffeur de taxi
Hubert Saint-Macary
Marcel
Jean-Luc Couchard
Laurent Capelluto
Martial's collegue
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dominique Deruddere previously directed 'Everybody Famous!' (2000), Belgium's Oscar submission, making this his second 'Everybody' title about desperate men.
The film satirizes France's post-2000 psychoanalytic culture, where analysts held enormous social prestige—making Vincent's catastrophic advice both funnier and more pointed.
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