Claire Lepecq-Quémeneur investigates the murder of a drop out, found on a piece of wasteland. Very quickly Alain, her ex-husband, realises that their 17 year-old son Basile, is guilty and does everything possible to avoid Claire suspecting him. But the clues she discovers lead her to the same conclusion.
Acting
Proust's restrained devastation as she circles the truth.
Direction
Bonnet makes domestic spaces feel claustrophobic and guilty.
Writing
The title's bitter irony lands harder with each revelation.
Director
Christian Bonnet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Caroline Proust was already iconic as Laure in Spiral; this smaller role lets her explore similar territory with quieter, more suffocating restraint.
French TV movies often get dismissed, but this one belongs to a tradition of bourgeois-crime exposes that stretches back to Chabrol's dissections of respectable monsters.
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