BB.5
(out of 5)
I’ll be a friend and tell you not to bother. This film descends upon you with a very slow, but never careful or deliberate, pace, featuring characters that are obvious from the beginning and rarely reveal anything significant about themselves. Laurent Lucas plays an average guy with a beautiful wife (Mathilde Seigner) and three bratty daughters who runs into an old high school chum (Sergi López) in a public bathroom at a rest stop on his way to the cottage. The old friend, now a rich bachelor with nothing to do but burn time with his pretty fiancee, invites himself over to Lucas’ home and quietly works his way into their life. He never gets particularly obsessed or frightening, he just starts killing people halfway through the film, and until the very end no one is ever wise to his activities, nor do they find him very unsettling or frightening, just a little annoying because he keeps buying them things.
Canal+, Centre National de la Cinématographie, , , Procirep, Sofica Sofinergie 5
Directed by Dominik Moll
Scenario by Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand
Cinematography by Matthieu Poirot-Delpech
Produced by Michel Saint-Jean
Music by David Whitaker
Production Design by Michel Barthelemy
Costume Design by Virginie Montel
Film Editing by Yannick Kergoat
Cannes Film Festival: 2000
Toronto International Film Festival: 2000
