Fabrice grew up fascinated by his father. His only way to get his admiration: follow in his footsteps, become the local boss and stick up for their land at all costs. But now, his wife Laetitia is urging him to move on, to break free from his father's grip. Torn by the conflict between his desire for freedom and the fear of losing his father's love, he will fall into a spiral of violence.
Acting
Fustier's restrained collapse under paternal weight.
Direction
Duquesne's suffocating rural spaces as emotional prison.
Director
Vincent Duquesne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Explores the rarely-screened world of French rural criminal 'milieu' — organized crime families in agricultural regions, far from Parisian glamour.
Duquesne based Maurice loosely on his own grandfather, a man who 'couldn't say I love you, only here's what I built.'
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