Doctor Lepage knows his wife Françoise through and through. He protects her, watching over her. In a masterly way he chases all 'butterflies' away that come in her neighborhood. Françoise knows that she is nice.
Acting
Greggory's chillingly banale evil, Ferré's trapped stillness.
Direction
Declercq's suffocating domestic spaces as trap.
Director
Bernard Declercq
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belgian cinema's 2010s wave of domestic horror (Dardenne influence meets Haneke) made this micro-budget festival circuit darling before vanishing.
Ferré was Declercq's actual partner; the film's intimacy is documentary-uncomfortable, raising ethical questions about performative consent.
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