Storyline

Jean, a farm lad, wants to escape his silent father; he runs to Paris to his older brother, Georges, who's away covering the war in Kosovo. Angry, he throws a bag of half-eaten pastry into a beggar's lap. Amadou, a young Franco-African, berates him. The police arrive, arrest Amadou and deport the beggar. Georges's girlfriend Anne is upset; it colors her relationship with Georges when he returns from the war. Separate lives intersect for the one moment, around the pastry bag, and all are altered. We follow each as repercussions of the incident play out. Deaf children bookend the film pantomiming words, feelings, and situations: what they are expressing?

Plot Keywords

shopping, old lady, abortion, barn, male female relationship, policeman, husband wife relationship, audition, taxi, taxi driver, pregnancy, passport, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, mother son relationship, girl, boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, tractor

Short Review

The violence, in short, remains unseen, but that makes it no easier to bear; what lurks and wails behind a wall is, for Haneke, the most reliable wellspring of dread.

Trailer

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