A perfect wedding, a vanishing family, and a father who won't blink. What is he hiding?
Eric returns to his hometown to marry Edith. A beautiful summer, a woman he loves, a beautiful wedding: everything is in place for the party to be successful. But Eric's mother and brother disappear and his father remains imperturbable.
Direction
Videau's clinical eye turns sunlight into menace.
Acting
Meylan's imperturbable father is maddeningly unreadable.
Writing
Dialogue that says everything by saying almost nothing.
Director
Frédéric Videau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Frédéric Videau cast himself as Eric, making this an intensely personal excavation of masculine repression.
The title nods to 'variété' as both entertainment genre and the variety of secrets families perform. Jacno, playing Edith's father, was a legendary French new wave musician — his presence adds meta-layer of cultural performance.
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