When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.
Acting
Tim Roth's devastating minimalism — every blink is a choice.
Direction
Franco's unblinking camera refuses to look away from discomfort.
Cinematography
Paradise as prison — gorgeous and suffocating simultaneously.
Director
Michel Franco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg previously starred together in 'The War Zone' (1999) — their reunion here crackles with decades of unspoken history.
Franco shot in chronological order and kept Roth isolated from the cast between takes to maintain Neil's detachment — method filmmaking that actually shows.
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