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

The film opened the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

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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

Well made film whose slickness almost succeeds in disguising a random and weak plot.

Well made, glossy, professional, well acted in fact everything about it was great except the story and a weak premise. I like the fact it was unpredictable and you didn't know what was going to happen next, but that was because I couldn't make my mind up as to what type of film it was.

If you believe there should be no rules in story telling and you can throw in what you like, when you like then you will like this. On the other hand if you think David Lynch and his like make it up as they go along in between having a good laugh at everybody who reads so much into their films then you won't.