Lemming

Five years after the excellent Harry, He’s Here to Help, Dominik Moll returns with this suggestive, Lynch-ian thriller, penned by the equally interesting writer-director Gilles Marchand. The story revolves around young, succesful engineer Alain Getty and his wife Bénédicte (Gainsbourg), who recently moved to a city in the Southern parts of France, where he has found a new job at a company run by a man named Richard Pollock (André Dussolier). Everything seems all jolly until the Gettys decide to invite Pollock and his wife Alice (Rampling) for dinner. The evening becomes an awkward event. Alice’s behaviour is oddly at the least – she confronts her husband with cheating on her, and soon enough the Pollocks leave. Later, everything takes a new twist as Alain discovers a bizarre rodent in the kitchen sink. From that point on, the Gettys’ lives will never be the same again.Moll convinces not so much with the story as with his visual ambitions and black humour, and he has two of the most spectacular French actresses at hand – the two Charlottes make a perfectly intriguing duo, well assisted by the exciting Dussolier. Lemming was nominated for the Golden Palm in Cannes earlier this year.ELIN LARSSON

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Medverkande
Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Andre Dussollier: Producent
Michel Saint-Jean: Manus
Dominik Moll & Gilles Marchand: Foto
Jean-Marc Fabre: Musik
David Whitaker: Talat språk
French