Les Fourmis rouges (2007) - film review

Drama

Summary

16-year-old Alex lives alone with her father, Frank, in a remote village in the Ardennes Forest. Compelled to look after her father after the accidental death of her mother, Alex has grown up too fast. Just as Frank appears to have broken out of the apathy that overcame him when his wife died, Alex unintentionally revives her father’s anguish. Father and daughter find themselves into a darkly ambiguous world in which the barrier between tenderness and desire is slowly eroded...

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Credits

Director: Stéphan Carpiaux
Script: Stéphan Carpiaux, Laurent Denis
Photo: Philippe Guilbert
Music: Frédéric Vercheval
Cast: Déborah François (Alex), Arthur Jugnot (Hector), Isabelle Constantini (La prof de gym), Julie Gayet (Anne), Claire Johnston (Irène), Sascha Migge (Schmitt), Jean-Michel Nepper (L’employé du supermarché), Frédéric Pierrot (Franck), Norbert Rutili (Professeur), Franck Sasonoff (Kremer), Jean-François Wolff (L’epicier)
Country: Belgium / France / Luxembourg
Language: French
Runtime: 95 min

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