Maxence Lafourcade raises pigs in the Pyrenees. His life changes when he learns that a highway will cross his his farm. To face the cynical deputy mayor and his project, he must make an unnatural alliance with a disillusioned lawyer, whose daughter Maxence falls in love with.
Acting
Cyril Lecomte's stubborn everyman charm carries the whole farm.
Cinematography
Pyrenees mountains so gorgeous you'll want to chain yourself to them too.
Writing
Bureaucratic absurdity that would make Kafka cackle.
Director
Emmanuel Caussé
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references the Spanish Civil War anti-fascist slogan, reclaiming it for grassroots environmental protest.
Rossy de Palma's role as the eccentric Inès was written specifically for her after the directors saw her in Almodóvar films.
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