Alain Getty, a brilliant young home automation engineer, and his wife Benedicte having recently arrived in a new town, invite Alain's boss Richard Pollock and his wife Alice to dinner. The encounter does not leave the young couple's harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent's corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does nothing to help and portends the bursting of irrationality into a hitherto orderly life.
Production Diaphana Films [fr]; France 3 Cinéma [fr](co-production); Canal+ [fr](participation); CinéCinéma [fr](participation); Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) [fr](participation); Région Ile-de-France [fr](participation); Soficinéma [fr](participation); France 3 Cinéma [fr];
Cast Names Natacha Boussaa; Laurent Lucas; Charlotte Gainsbourg; Charlotte Rampling; André Dussollier; Jacques Bonnaffé; Véronique Affholder; Michel Cassagne; Florence Desille; Emmanuel Gayet; Félix Gonzales; Nicolas Jouhet; Fabrice Robert;
Box Office USD 81,612
Release Date 2005-09-02 (Telluride Film Festival) 2006-05-19 (New York City, New York)