After answering an ad on a dating website for Eastern European women, Olla leaves Ukraine and heads to French suburbia to move in with Pierre, who lives with his elderly mother. However, the suburbia cannot temper her desires, and nothing goes as expected.
Acting
Lobach's deadpan rebellion against every expectation.
Direction
Labed's background in dance shows in every awkward body.
Director
Ariane Labed
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ariane Labed is primarily known as an actress, notably in Yorgos Lanthimos films—explaining her comfort with deadpan absurdity.
The film deliberately toys with 'mail-order bride' exploitation tropes, then refuses the expected victim narrative entirely.
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