Cast
Adélaïde Leroux Samuel Boidin
Credits
Written by: 
Bruno Dumont
Produced by: 
Rachid Bouchareb
Plot
A film that won the Cannes Grand Prix, in which a soldier is sent to fight in an unnamed Middle Eastern country.
Sinekatalog’s take
Bruno Dumont's Grand Prix winner moves from a Flemish farm to a nameless war, where young men become brutal and ruined. Harsh, spare and unsparing, it is a stark meditation on violence and the animal in us.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.5 / 10 (3,401 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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