Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
Acting
Isabelle Carré's face does entire novels of silent grief.
Cinematography
Ozon's camera worships her isolation in sun-drenched emptiness.
Direction
Ozon glides between cruelty and tenderness like it's breathing.
Director
François Ozon
Isabelle Carré
Mousse
Louis-Ronan Choisy
Paul
Pierre Louis-Calixte
Serge
Melvil Poupaud
Louis
Claire Vernet
La mère
Jean-Pierre Andréani
Le père
Marie Rivière
La femme sur la plage
Jérôme Kircher
Le médecin
Nicolas Moreau
Le dragueur
Émile Berling
Le dealer
Dominique Jacquet
Geneviève
Tania Dessources
L'infirmière
Maurice Antoni
Le prêtre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ozon called this his 'anti-8 femmes'—stripped-down, masculine energy intruding on female space, a deliberate inversion of his usual camp.
Louis-Ronan Choisy was a real-life musician with no acting experience; Ozon cast him for his androgynous quality and actual guitar skills.
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