In the middle of nowhere, a workers’ housing project was cleared of its population some years ago. However, some inhabitants decided to stay, more through choice than necessity, because this is where they were born and where they grew up.
Among them are Francis, the conscientious worker who continues to maintain the machine on which he worked his whole life, and his son, Samir, who has just returned to the area after a long absence.
Their neighbor, Maria lives with her son Jose. The latter lives under the misapprehension that his father is Gary Cooper. Everyday he waits for him in the street of this modern no man’s land, which increasingly resembles the set of an old western...
2009 Cannes International Film Festival – Critic's week Grand Prize

一部二级恐怖电影必须在戛纳电影节上放映，但在每次放映之前，放映员都会被一个神秘的家伙用锤子和镰刀杀死，就像即将上映的电影中发生的那样。

布朗斯基因為首席建築師大衛布蘭德的緣故在建築工地發生事故而導致傷殘。 事故發生多年後，布朗斯基出現在布蘭德的住所，他的家人正在徵人。 他和他的妻子在沒有透露自己真實身份的情況下應徵。 他們開始為布蘭德和他的妻子伊蓮工作，作為園丁和保姆，其唯一目的是對他們的生活造成嚴重破壞並報復布朗斯基的殘疾。

Frederic is a young man in social rehabilitation. He has just found a night internship, in an isolated hotel in the mountains when, one evening, he sees his boss, Jacques, together with this son, hiding a car in the parking lot. The day after, he learns that one of the clients left the hotel without notice...

如果塞缪尔·波拉里斯买了一把枪，拜访了妻子的情人，结果野蛮地咬了他的牙医，那么他的处境就很糟糕了。很坏。除非其他人，否则那些“正常”的人——他们的职业规划、他们的通奸行为、他们的傲慢无能——已经陷入了一种集体疯狂。谁知道。因为他别无选择，因为他深爱着自己的妻子，因为他拒绝接受最坏的情况，塞缪尔·波拉里斯决定恢复自己的尊严。即使为了做到这一点，他必须从他的精神科医生那里偷走肯尼迪被暗杀当天佩戴的手表。