Lemming (2005)

After developing a flying web-cam Alain has his boss and wife over for dinner. She turns up to be very rude, and the same night Alain finds a live rare Scandinavian lemming clogging up the kitchen sink. The night things start going wrong.

Director:

Dominik Moll

Writers:

Gilles Marchand, Dominik Moll

Stars:

Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling

4 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Laurent Lucas	...	Alain Getty
Charlotte Gainsbourg	...	Bénédicte Getty
Charlotte Rampling	...	Alice Pollock
André Dussollier	...	Richard Pollock
Jacques Bonnaffé	...	Nicolas Chevalier
Véronique Affholder	...	Francine
Michel Cassagne	...	Le vétérinaire
Florence Desille	...	L'infirmière
Emmanuel Gayet	...	Le médecin de garde
Félix Gonzales	...	Félix, le fils du voisin
Nicolas Jouhet	...	L'employé des eaux
Fabrice Robert	...	Bruno
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Natacha Boussaa	...	Une call-girl
Luc Thelliez	...	Getty's Neighbour (Felix' Father)

Storyline

The automation engineer Alain Getty and his beloved wife Bénédicte have just moved to the suburb of Bel-Air. Alain has developed the prototype of a flying web-cam for Pollock S.A., a high-tech company. After a successful presentation of his project to their clients, Alain invites his boss Richard Pollock and his wife Alice for dinner at his home. The couple arrives late, and Alice is extremely rude, insulting her husband and the young couple, and forcing Richard to leave the house earlier. During the night, Alain finds a rare Scandinavian lemming stuck in the siphon of the sink in the kitchen. On the next night, Alice unsuccessfully tries to seduce Alain after-hours in the laboratory of the company. On the next afternoon, she visits Bénédicte to apologize her behavior and cynically tells her sexual harassment to her husband. Then she locks herself in a room and commits suicide. On the next days, Bénédicte changes her behavior and relationship with Alain, seeming to be possessed by ...

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Plot Keywords:

suburb | lemming | suicide | murder | hitchcockian | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Diaphana - synopsis, photos (French)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

11 May 2005 (France)

Also Known As:

Leming

Filming Locations:

Midi-Pyrénées, France

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$603,392 (France), 20 May 2005

Opening Weekend USA:

$11,310, 21 May 2006, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$81,612, 10 September 2006

Company Credits

Production Co:

Diaphana Films,France 3 Cinéma,Canal+

Technical Specs

Runtime:

129 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Visa d'exploitation en France : #109218

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Connections

Referenced in Mic Macs à Tire-Larigot (2009)

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Soundtracks

Continuum: Etüde für Klavier
Written by György Ligeti
Performed by Jürgen Hocker

User Reviews

A modern day nightmare, a young couple invite his boss and spouse to dinner and are surprised .

A thrill from beginning to the end, constant tension keeps you wide awake. I like the way the tension is kept in a sort of mysterious Hitchcock kind of way. Better than Moll's film with a friend like Harry. I am becoming a fan of the work of Dominik Moll. The set is well chosen and the modern day French suburban houses are like real life . The acting by Charlotte Rampling is like she really breathes down your neck. I like the way the film was shot and the symbols that come out of the backgrounds. The shape of the mountain, the light by the lake, Charlotte Gainsbourg's eyes and the lemmings in the kitchen, suicide is not painless in this film, it takes you on a roller-coaster ride to where you never thought to end up in a movie theater. Good film, looking forward to the next Moll