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(Switzerland/France/Belgium, 2008, 96 minutes)

A working-class family living happily by an unfinished motorway finds itself unravelling swiftly as the road finally opens. Tense, claustrophobic melodrama of modern day isolation that plays like an allegorical horror movie.

A Diaphana Distribution release. A Box Productions/Archipel 35/Need Productions presentation/production, in co-production with France 3 Cinéma, SRG SSR Idée Suisse and RTBF; with the support of Eurimages; with the participation of Office Fédéral de la Culture (DFI), Centre National de la Cinématographie, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté Française de Belgique et des Télédistributeurs Wallons, Canal Plus, Cinécinéma, Fonds REGIO Films, REGIO Distrib, Fonds Culturel Suissimage, Ville de Genève Departement de la Culture, Fondation Vaudoise pour le Cinéma, Pôle Image Liège, Wallimage, Promimage, Région Wallonne; in association with Espace 2, Cinémage 2, Soficinéma 3. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adelaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd, Kacey Mottet Klein. Directed by Ursula Meier; produced by Elena Tatti, Thierry Spicher, Denis Freyd, Denis Delcampe; written by Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud, Raphaëlle Valbrune, Gilles Taurand, Olivier Lorelle, with the collaboration of Alice Winocour; director of photography (Schwarzfilm), Agnès Godard; production designer, Ivan Niclass; costume designer, Anne van Brée; film editor, Susana Rossberg, with the collaboration of François Gédigier, Nelly Quettier.