Directed by:
Gilles BourdosCinematography:
Mark LeeComposer:
Alexandre DesplatCast:
Brigitte Catillon, Mathieu Amalric, Carlo Brandt, Grégoire Colin, Sarah Pratt, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot, Laurent Olmedo, Etienne Chicot (more)Plots(1)
Bruno grew up on the outskirts of the city, between industrial wasteland and scrub vegetation. In a family corrupted by alcoholism, he has always been the outsider. Bruno longs to free himself from the degenerate background he hates, to lose himself in a world of beauty. At the age of five, Elise witnessed her mother's bloody, still-unsolved murder. She struggles to live with the memory but is trapped by her family: by her hopelessly weak father and an hysterical stepmother who believes that the girl is fated to suffer terrible violence. Elise is 18 Elise is lovely Elise is suffocating A chance meeting brings them together. Elise embodies the beauty Bruno has previously found only in objects. He is smitten. But the combination of this obsessive dreamer, the beautiful Elise and her neurotic, paranoid stepmother proves lethal. Beneath his attractive façade, Bruno is damaged beyond repair, a prisoner of deeply disturbed visions, possessed by a compulsion that will lead irrevocably to appalling acts of transgression. (Wild Bunch Distribution)
(more)Cast
Brigitte Catillon
Best movies:
Marie's Story (2014)
Voyager (1991)
Un Coeur en Hiver (1992)
Mathieu Amalric
France
Best movies:
Mars Express (2023)
Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy Number 1 (2008)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Carlo Brandt
Switzerland
Best movies:
Indochine (1992)
Ridiculous (1996)
Freedom (2009)
Grégoire Colin
France
Best movies:
Before the Rain (1994)
The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Olivier, Olivier (1992)
Sarah Pratt
Best movies:
Brief Crossing (2001)
The Last Mistress (2007)
Role of Her Life, The (2004)
Laurent Grévill
France
Best movies:
I've Loved You So Long (2008)
Camille Claudel (1988)
The Very Merry Widows (2003)
Frédéric Pierrot
France
Best movies:
I've Loved You So Long (2008)
Life and Nothing But (1989)
Land and Freedom (1995)
Laurent Olmedo
Best movies:
La Vie en rose (2007)
36 - Tödliche Rivalen (2004)
A Gang Story (2011)
Etienne Chicot
France
Best movies:
A Bad Son (1980)
A Gang Story (2011)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1976)
Charlie Nelson
Best movies:
Queen Margot (1994)
Diplomacy (2014)
Cover Up (1983)
Julie Ordon
Switzerland
Best movies:
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Befikre (2016)
The Love Punch (2013)
Bérangère Bonvoisin
Best movies:
Good Morning, Babylon (1987)
La Lectrice (1988)
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
Danièle Douet
Best movies:
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
The Page Turner (2006)
Huguette (2018) (TV movie)
Sophie Staub
Best movies:
Cassandre (2015) (series)
Murder in Provence (2019) (TV movie)
Murders in Rochefort (2019)