Nina and Lizzy meet at the mental institution they are committed to. Nina, who feels guilty for her father's death, has been depressed since the tragic event. As for Lizzy, a slightly unbalanced girl, has been confined there after a suicide attempt. One Saturday night, Lizzy persuades Nina to sneak out of the clinic to paint the city red with her boyfriend Malik and their common friends. But things do not go according to plan. Not at all...
Acting
Sallette's Lizzy is magnetic chaos—can't look away, terrified to keep watching.
Direction
Grandperret's handheld intimacy makes every bad decision feel inescapable.
Director
Patrick Grandperret
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'New French Extremity' movement alongside *À l'intérieur* and *Irreversible*—films that weaponize intimacy to disturb.
The river sequence was shot in one freezing night; Kodja's hypothermia was real and kept in the final cut.
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