Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have children so far. One day, Meunier bumps into a childhood friend, Patrick Chambon (François-Xavier Demaison) and the two resume their friendship, despite Chambon having struggled as a petty criminal.
Acting
Magimel's smiling despair — success never looked so hollow
Direction
Vigneron makes beige apartments feel like traps
Writing
The unspoken: what Meunier owes and won't admit
Director
Grégoire Vigneron
Benoît Magimel
Étienne Meunier
François-Xavier Demaison
Patrick Chambon
Julie Gayet
Clémence Meunier
Léa Seydoux
Fleur
Jean-Marie Winling
Maurice
Dominique Labourier
Micheline
André Wilms
François Michelet
Stéphane De Groodt
Kazinski
Christelle Cornil
Laurence
Georges Siatidis
Malbert
Jean-Yves Roan
Richard Gauthier
Stéphane Foenkinos
Créatif pub 1
William Miller
Ritchie Brown
Yves Jacques
Maître Bardon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Léa Seydoux appears early in her career here, already exuding the detached menace that would define her.
Part of a 2010s French wave examining 'successful' men imploding — see also 'The Measure of a Man' and 'L'Emploi du temps'.
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