An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
Acting
Bloquet's barely-verbal performance—every glance is a wound.
Direction
Lafosse lets scenes breathe until you can't breathe.
Director
Joachim Lafosse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'New Belgian Cinema' wave exploring repressed violence in domestic spaces—think the Dardenne brothers but with more bourgeois rot.
Lafosse based the tennis academy on real Belgian training facilities where young athletes live away from family, creating institutional blind spots.
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