One of my all time favorites.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This film unveils its sense only at "THE END", for it is a frightening nightmare (un cauchemar): The protagonist has severe psychological problems because he was left by his wife and obviously lost his beloved dog, a setter who used to accompany him. In his dream he tries to overcome his problems in a drastic way: He is lost in the forest, i.e. in reality he doesn't know a way out from his problems - he is losing his dog who will never come back in reality. Finally he meets a woman who was obviously raped by two men at the same time; when he brings her in his home, he tries to care for her in order to win her sympathy. But instead of being grateful, this woman kills him - a symbol for the loss of his wife where he thought that instead of leaving him she should have been grateful for him. In his dream, surprisingly two men help him out of his desperate situation. The solution of this horrible story comes at the end of the movie when the beginning of the story is told in reality. At the Berlin film festival the director, Guillaume Nicloux, explained that it was a must to turn this film with none other than Gérard Depardieu. And he was right: Depardieu fitted in this role perfectly and after a long period - after "La tête en friche", "Small World", "Potiche" and "Welcome to New York", it is a film with Depardieu which is worth while to be watched.