If you want to know what a goat having a piggy back on a bike in Africa has in common with dysfunctional relationships and a disappearance in wintry France, you'll have to wait quite a while in Dominik Moll's thriller, which reveals its cleverly worked secrets slowly.
The story is as twisty as the roads that wind through the parts of rural France where Michel (Denis Ménochet) and Alice (Laure Calamy) run a farm. They are just two of the characters whose connections will be gradually revealed - Rashomon-style from various perspectives - alongside fellow farmer Joseph (Damien Bonnard), Evelyne (Valeri Bruni Tedeschi), who is staying in her second home in the area, young waitress Marion (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) and Armand (Guy Roger 'Bibisse' N'Drin), who lives half a world away.
To reveal much about the plot beyond the fact that there is a quiet dissatisfaction about all the characters,...
The story is as twisty as the roads that wind through the parts of rural France where Michel (Denis Ménochet) and Alice (Laure Calamy) run a farm. They are just two of the characters whose connections will be gradually revealed - Rashomon-style from various perspectives - alongside fellow farmer Joseph (Damien Bonnard), Evelyne (Valeri Bruni Tedeschi), who is staying in her second home in the area, young waitress Marion (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) and Armand (Guy Roger 'Bibisse' N'Drin), who lives half a world away.
To reveal much about the plot beyond the fact that there is a quiet dissatisfaction about all the characters,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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