A bored househusband takes one driving gig and accidentally becomes France's most wanted. Oops.
Fred (Vincent Lindon) is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend (Clotilde Courau), does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him an the police is on his back.
Acting
Lindon's crushed dignity in every slumped shoulder.
Direction
Jolivet turns mundane spaces into trap corridors.
Director
Pierre Jolivet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during France's post-industrial collapse, it captures a generation of men stripped of purpose when factories closed. Lindon became the face of this specific masculine grief.
Jolivet and Lindon were childhood friends; this was their fourth collaboration. The warehouse was an actual abandoned factory outside Lyon.
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