After 12 years of absence, Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a writer, goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fuelled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people's incapacity to listen and love.
gay lead character, illness, returning home, family reunion, dysfunctional family, family relationships, based on play, cigarette smoking, reminiscence, childhood memory, playwright, family argument, one day time span, sweat, cuckoo clock, heat, mother son reunion, postcard, taxi, brother in law sister in law relationship
Apparently they spent half a million dollars to make this Not sure what they spent it on. Certainly wasn't the special effects.