Divorce is messy. This ex-husband's whole VILLAGE is messier.
Claire Rousset visits her ex-husband Pierre who lives in the Lyon region. For some time now, Pierre's health and that of the other inhabitants of the village has deteriorated to the point of becoming worrying.
Direction
Enrico's creeping dread without cheap scares.
Acting
Azéma's mounting panic as witness and ex-wife.
Cinematography
Lyon countryside rendered sinister and sickly.
Director
Robert Enrico
Richard Anconina
Jeff Montelier
Sabine Azéma
Claire Rousset
Hélène Surgère
La mère de Claire
Jacques Nolot
Pierre Rousset
Jean Bouise
Antoine Sénéchal
Dominique Reymond
Nathalie Cheylard
Thierry Rode
Vanian
Jean Reno
Leccia
Bernard Freyd
le directeur du CRES
Jean-Pierre Bagot
Louis Machabert
Christian Pereira
Gérard, le chimiste
Jean-Pierre Bisson
le commissaire Mercier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released two years after the Bhopal disaster and amid France's own toxic waste scandals, it channels very real 1980s ecological paranoia.
Robert Enrico, known for 'The Battle of the Bulge' episodes, considered this his most personal film—a deliberate pivot from war to invisible domestic warfare.
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