51 minutes of grief, wine, and family chaos — no funeral quite like this.
Over there, in his village at the foot of the mountains, he’s dead. His face radiant and his body at peace, he lies on the bed. Then they can gather around him. Three days long they talk, drink, weep, fight and remember… And they smile, too.
Acting
Four women carrying decades of history in every loaded glance.
Writing
Dialogue that feels eavesdropped, not scripted.
Director
Jonathan Millet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film draws from rural French traditions where wakes lasted until burial, transforming private mourning into communal endurance test.
Director Jonathan Millet deliberately kept the dead man unnamed and unshown alive — he's purely the absence around which everything orbits.
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