Michel Blanc plays a dad watching his son burn it all down — relatable French despair.
Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.
Acting
Michel Blanc's understated desperation as a father who literally cannot.
Direction
Fansten captures that specific 80s French cinematic bleakness.
Director
Jacques Fansten
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Jacques Fansten's rare forays outside documentary filmmaking into narrative drama.
The title became a bitter parental catchphrase in 1980s France, embodying the guilt-tripping of the Mitterrand era's anxious middle class.
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