Michael Haneke : 2017
Gradually succumbing to dementia, Georges Laurent, the octogenarian patriarch of the Laurents, an affluent bourgeois family, is uncomfortably sharing his palatial manor in Calais, the heart of the infamous migrant jungle, with his twice-married son, Thomas, and Anne, his workaholic daughter who has taken over the family construction business. Divorced and frigid, Anne has to handle the impact of a disastrous workplace accident caused by her disappointing son Pierre's negligence, while at the same time, the urgent hospitalisation of Thomas's ex-wife from a mysterious poisoning, leads his sulky 13-year-old daughter, Eve, to live with her father and his new wife, Anaïs. Undoubtedly, in this family, everyone has a skeleton in the closet, and as the fates of the Laurents enmesh with insistent and ignoble desires, a peculiar and disturbing alliance will form. But in the end, some secrets are bigger than others. Michael Haneke's feature premiered in competition at Festival de Cannes 2017.
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