Jacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.
Acting
Vincent Macaigne's physical transformation is genuinely uncomfortable to watch.
Direction
Benchetrit commits fully to the metaphor without winking.
Director
Samuel Benchetrit
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vanessa Paradis was Johnny Depp's partner for 14 years; this was her return to French cinema after their split.
Based on Benchetrit's own graphic novel, the film adapts a specifically French tradition of absurdist social satire.
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