Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...
Acting
Benoît Magimel's trembling restraint as dignity curdles to obsession.
Direction
Beauvois's patient observation of masculine silence imploding.
Director
Xavier Beauvois
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Beauvois made this after his own father's factory death; the title's deliberate misspelling ('To' not 'To') suggests an unsendable letter.
The cigarette that triggers everything is never shown lit—a perfect symbol of invisible, inherited rage.
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