Lemming
a DOMINIK MOLL picture
Synopsis
Alain Getty, a young and brilliant engineer and his wife Benedicte, move to a new city following Alain’s work transfer. They invite Alain’s new boss and his wife to dinner one evening. However the difference between the two couples couldn’t be more extreme: on one hand the young model couple, on the other, a pair corroded by hate and resentment. This disastrous dinner and the discovery of a mysterious dead rodent in their drain marks the descent into pandemonium of their once perfect life.
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Press
"The best French screenplay for a longtime. A psychological thriller with a peppering of Bunuellian black comedy."
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
"A stark character-driven narrative piece."
THE BBC
"Moll goes out of his way to ensure that “Lemming” inspires maximum head scratching…the actors appear to have been instructed to give nothing away."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
"Moll has a sharp eye for the brittle conventions of French bourgeois society and his cast do him proud—especially Lucas."
TOTAL FILM
"Satisfyingly creepy… Part black comedy, part suspense thriller, part supernatural nightmare."
THE GUARDIAN
"Dark, chillingly suspenseful drama…the genuinely surrealist tone, together with the exemplary performances from the lead quartet, make for a most divertingly nightmarish experience."
TIME OUT
"Slick, funny and unsettling, slipping between psychological thriller, absurdist farce and ghost story into an unnerving dreamscape where psychosis meets metempsychosis…comes with real bite."
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Festivals
& Awards
Cannes International Film Festival
Opening Film
César Awards, France
Nominee
European Film Awards
Nominee
London Film Festival
Sitges Film Festival
Telluride Film Festival
São Paulo International Film Festival
European Film Festival, Poland
Busan International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Cast & Crew
| Charlotte Rampling | |
|---|---|
| Charlotte Gainsbourg | |
| Laurent Lucas | |
| André Dussollier |
| Director | Dominik Moll |
|---|---|
| Screenplay | Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand |
| Producer | Michel Saint-Jean |
| Cinematography | Jean-Marc Fabre |
| Set Design | Michel Barthélemy |
| Costumes | Virginie Montel, Isabelle Pannetier |
| Sound | François Maurel, Gérard Hardy, Gérard Lamps |
| Original Music | David Sinclair Whitaker |
| Editor | Mike Fromentin |
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