A dairy farmer in a remote village struggles with money after his father’s suicide and marries a glamorous newcomer. Their daughter posts a viral family dance video, and the household’s calm is disrupted by an elegant neighbor artist living alone next door. As the farmer tries to borrow cash for his wife’s upcoming 40th birthday party, three sinister tough men arrive at the house. Violent, claustrophobic encounters unfold among the family, the neighbor, and the intruders, with headbutting confrontations driving the tension. A key confrontation between the artist and one mobster unravels, but the story later runs out of narrative steam and a shock twist loses its impact.
"In a very remote bucolic village, Thomas (Bastien Bouillon) is a hardworking dairy farmer who took over the family smallholding after his father killed himself. After a whirlwind romance, he married Nora (Hafsia Herzi), a rather glamorous city-slicker of a woman who just showed up in the neighbourhood; they have a daughter, Ida who has recently irritated Nora by posting a wacky video of the three of them doing a goofy family dance, which has gone viral. The family gets on very well with an elegant artist who lives alone next door, played by Monica Bellucci on pretty stately form."
"Thomas has clearly got money worries; we see him on the phone trying to borrow cash from someone who has reluctantly helped him out before, as he needs 300 to pay for Nora's approaching 40th birthday party. On the day itself, three sinister tough guys show up in the house, played by Magimel, Paul Hamy and Alane Delhaye. We might think we know who they've come to see and why but things are a little more complicated than that."
"The film gives us headbutting encounters between Magimel and Herzi, Magimel and Bouillon and Hamy and everyone else. There is a very claustrophobic and bizarre atmosphere as the birthday party becomes very unenjoyable indeed although, as I said, a key confrontation between Bellucci's artist and Delhaye's mobster unravels, and it feels as if a scr"
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