Lemming (film)
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| Directed by | Dominik Moll |
| Produced by | Dominik Moll |
| Written by |
Gilles Marchand Dominik Moll |
| Starring |
Laurent Lucas Charlotte Gainsbourg Charlotte Rampling André Dussollier Jacques Bonnaffé Véronique Affholder |
| Music by | David Whitaker |
| Cinematography | Jean-Marc Fabre |
| Edited by | Mike Fromentin |
| Distributed by | Diaphana Films |
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129 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €5.3 million |
| Box office | $800,000 |
Lemming is a 2005 French psychological thriller film directed by Dominik Moll and starring André Dussollier, Charlotte Rampling, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Laurent Lucas. It was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Alain Getty (Lucas) is a Home Automation Engineer who accepts a job in the south of France to work on a small camera drone in a technology company owned by Richard Pollock (Dussollier). With his wife Bénédicte (Gainsbourg), a former pharmaceutical sales representative and now a housewife, he moves to a suburb of Toulouse.
After three months, Richard (Dussollier) invites himself and his wife Alice (Rampling) to dinner at Alain's house. They arrive late and create a scene with their marital problems and Alice is despicably rude to Bénédicte.
Things go downhill from there, beginning with Alain's discovery of an unconscious rodent lodged in the S-bend of the kitchen sink. When Alain pulls the animal out of the S-bend, it seems lifeless, but revives later. Bénédicte takes it to a veterinarian, who identifies it with some surprise as a lemming, a Scandinavian animal that does not live in France in the wild.
The next evening Alice visits Alain, who is working late, at his office. She tells him that Richard had once tried to kill her and that the only reason she was still with him is her desire to see him die. She then attempts to seduce the much younger Alain, who resists her advances. Alain doesn't tell Bénédicte about the incident.
Alice turns up at the Gettys' house in the day time, where Bénédicte is alone. Alice alludes to having had sex with Alain, then says she feels tired. Bénédicte shows her the guest bedroom, where she creates a mess and eventually shoots herself. Bénédicte feels a strange urge to spend the night in the guestroom where Alice committed suicide.
Despire Alice's death, Richard and Alain go on a business trip to Biarritz the next day. On the drive there, Alain asks Richard if it was true that he had attempted to kill his wife. In return, Richard asks Alain if he and Alice had sex, which he denies.
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