A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.
Acting
Bruno Cremer's suffocating patriarch, all control and collapse.
Direction
Brisseau's unflinching eye for emotional violence in domestic spaces.
Director
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brisseau made this after his own father's death; the film's suffocating atmosphere channels unresolved Oedipal tension.
Emmanuelle Debever, who played Isabelle, died by suicide in 2023; her performance here carries unbearable weight in retrospect.
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