Traveling through the Landes region, Martin, 40, helps his friend Eliott, 30, find a church. The two friends take advantage of this joyful escape from everyday life to reflect on their condition as men and their love lives, punctuated by schoolboy jokes. But the journey becomes a path to redemption for Martin, who, haunted by a broken masculinity and a lie, must confront the man he truly is.
Acting
Rongione's quietly devastating performance — the breakdown you don't see coming.
Cinematography
Landes forests as emotional landscape, not just backdrop.
Writing
Dialogue that stings with how men actually talk around pain.
Director
Fabien Gorgeart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a 2010s French wave exploring 'crise de la virilité' — the collapse of traditional masculinity templates in contemporary France.
The title's double meaning — geographical direction AND life's purpose — only fully lands once you realize Martin was never lost on roads, just in himself.
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