March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a class-room. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder? A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing without her parents knowing where she has gone. A young girl with no dark background or connection to Simon. The next day, Jean-Baptiste, a third student, also disappears. Rumors start to spread. The psychosis begins...
Direction
Gobert's debut simmers with unspoken menace in every frame.
Acting
Amateur teens feel dangerously, authentically lost.
Director
Fabrice Gobert
Ana Girardot
Alice
Jules Pelissier
Jéremie
Laurent Delbecque
Simon
Audrey Bastien
Clara
Arthur Mazet
Jean-Baptiste Rabier
Alice Butaud
La prof de sciences
Laurent Capelluto
Yves, l'entraîneur de foot
Yan Tassin
Frédéric
Serge Riaboukine
Rabier
Selma El Mouissi
Laetitia
Esteban Carvajal-Alegria
Luc
Arthur de Donno
Kama
Edith Proust
Florence
Barthélémy Guillemard
Grammont
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as 'The Social Network,' this is the anti-Facebook teen movie—no screens, just physical dread in French suburbs.
Gobert cast actual non-professionals from the region, then kept them isolated from the script's full plot to capture genuine confusion.
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