A lonely kid crashes a marriage like it's a sleepover that never ends.
Acting
Coralie Tetard's unnerving stillness—no child actor tricks.
Direction
Poirier lets discomfort sit without explaining it.
Writing
Dialogue so mundane it becomes terrifying.
Director
Manuel Poirier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1990s French cinema's obsession with 'la France profonde'—provincial boredom as dramatic engine. Poirier was Breton, and the coastal emptiness here is practically a character.
Marie-France Pisier was a Nouvelle Vague icon (Celine and Julie Go Boating); her casting as the brittle, wanting Audrey adds meta-layers of women who've watched cinema's ideas of femininity crumble.
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