A game of peekaboo goes very, very wrong when the window becomes a wall.
Nikita and Ludo are a unique couple. In love, but always playful, they live their fantasies in total complicity. So, when her husband gives her an appointment in an unknown house in the middle of the day, Nikita plays the game 100% and dresses up in her best lingerie to excite the man who, for sure, will have the chance to take her in front of her man. However, there is one thing that Nikita hates, it is when Ludo has fun scaring her by pretending to be a pervert who observes her without her knowledge. The joker will be even if he has to stay in the cold, on the wrong side of the bay window, forced to watch his darling masturbating...
Direction
Directors weaponize the frame itself—windows become screens, screens become traps.
Acting
Bellucci performs arousal and dread simultaneously; it's genuinely destabilizing.
Sound
The silence of that bay window—no score, just breath and traffic distance.
Director
Ludovic Dekan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Directors Dekan and Bellucci are partners in real life; the film reportedly emerged from an actual game gone uncomfortable.
Part of France's 'New Intimacy' movement—filmmakers using their own bodies and relationships as contested territory.
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