When reading reviews one thin strikes me: the intellectuals are at a dead end when they don't know which label to put on a film. This one could fit in the drawer psycho-thriller.
Lemming is a bit like Ozon's Sitcom, where a rodent triggers the events that are about to follow. But maybe it is also a horror movie, since some of the trickier points of the plot can be explained by introduc9ng possession or metempsychosis.
So what is going on:
Alain is an engineer for home equipment. One evening his boss and his wife invite themselves to their new home. The boss' wife, Bénédicte, is behaving rather strangely and the evening ends in a fiasco. Alain later repairs a tube and finds a strange rodent.
At work Bénédicte tries to seduce Alain, but he refuses. Bénédicte then again shows up at Alain's home and talks some rubbish to Alain's wife, Alice, and then commits suicide.
It seems that Bénédicte's spirit is haunting Alice and seeking revenge on her husband. When the revenge is done, the idyll and marital bliss returns to the life of Alain and Alice.
This is a psychological thriller. There is a flowing border between reality and fantasy, but I never got really captivated. There are great performances, but the script remains basically uninteresting.
6/10
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| Alain agt work |
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| Bénédicte is behaving likea sociopath. |
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| A lemming in the pipe |
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| Bénédicte as seducer? Or is ot Alice? |
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| Il faut cultiver notre jardin. |
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