A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
Direction
Miller blurs reality and nightmare with surgical precision.
Acting
Van Den Bergh's anxious wreck performance is genuinely unnerving.
Director
Claude Miller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Claude Miller spent years developing this after reading the novel; it's considered his most personal and disturbing work.
The 1998 release made it a grim companion piece to real-world school violence debates, especially in Europe where such films were rare.
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