Directed by:
Claire DenisCinematography:
Agnès GodardComposer:
TindersticksCast:
Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Michel Subor, Julie Bataille, Lola Créton, Alex Descas, Grégoire Colin, Hélène Fillières, Florence Loiret Caille (more)Plots(1)
Acclaimed director Claire Denis's jagged, daringly fragmented and darkest film is a genuinely contemporary film noir inspired by recent French sex ring scandals involving men of wealth and power. Vincent Lindon (Denis's Friday Night) stars as Marco, a sea captain gone AWOL to avenge his brother-in-law's suicide and to rescue his estranged sister and his teenaged niece (Lola Créton, Goodbye First Love); Chiara Mastroianni (A Christmas Tale) is Lindon's married lover, who has sold her soul in exchange for the security of her young son; and the remarkable Michel Subor is her husband – a sleazy financier who is the very embodiment of an evil beyond comprehension. Denis takes the viewer into the very heart of darkness in her most unsettling film yet, an unforgettable and thrilling commentary on late capitalism. An official selection at the Cannes and Toronto Film Fesitvals. (Sundance Selects)
(more)Cast
Vincent Lindon
France
Best movies:
Welcome (2009)
La Haine (1995)
Betty Blue (1986)
Chiara Mastroianni
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
Les Chansons d'Amour (2007)
Michel Subor
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale (1963)
Julie Bataille
Best movies:
Paris, I Love You (2006)
À cran, deux ans après (2004) (TV movie)
Bastards (2013)
Lola Créton
France
Best movies:
Chamber of Death (2007)
Goodbye First Love (2011)
Unveiled (2018) (TV movie)
Alex Descas
France
Best movies:
The House (1997)
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
The Intruder (2004)
Grégoire Colin
France
Best movies:
Before the Rain (1994)
The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Olivier, Olivier (1992)
Hélène Fillières
France
Best movies:
Friday Night (2002)
Un amour de femme (2001) (TV movie)
Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
Florence Loiret Caille
Best movies:
Women (1997)
The Intruder (2004)
Friday Night (2002)
Elise Lhomeau
France
Best movies:
Holy Motors (2012)
Young Girls in Black (2010)
Bastards (2013)
Jeanne Disson
Best movies:
Tomboy (2011)
Holy Motors (2012)
Bastards (2013)
Laurent Grévill
France
Best movies:
I've Loved You So Long (2008)
Camille Claudel (1988)
The Very Merry Widows (2003)
Isolda Dychauk
Russia
Best movies:
Mein Freund aus Faro (2008)
Faust (2011)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Nicole Dogué
Best movies:
35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Bird People (2014)
Bastards (2013)
Sharunas Bartas
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Corridor (1995)
Eastern Drift (2010)
Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015)
Christophe Miossec
France
Best movies:
Bastards (2013)
Cécile Bouillot
Best movies:
Irreplaceable (2016)
Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor (2014)
Bastards (2013)
Claire Tran
Best movies:
Lucy (2014)
Clouds of Sils Marie (2014)
Eden (2014)