A stranger walks in, charisma dripping, and nobody asks why. You would.
During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one Andre- Pierre distrustful relates to the stranger.
Acting
Nicolas Cazalé's smug, slippery charisma
Direction
Paquet-Brenner's suffocating bourgeois spaces
Director
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gilles Paquet-Brenner adapted this from his own 1999 short film, expanding a 20-minute premise to 102 minutes of escalating dread.
The film satirizes French bourgeois niceness as a fatal vulnerability—Boris exploits the family's desperate need to appear welcoming.
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