![]() Young Julien ( Kacey Mottet Klein) can't safely get to his pals. Marion the smart younger sister ( Madeleine Budd) is concerned about carbon dioxide poisoning. Now even getting to the house is a problem. ![]() The two younger kids always ran across the bare pavement to cut through a field for school. The heavy, unceasing traffic is a big problem. Maybe they got the house cheap because it was coming. The opening of the highway was not a surprise for them. (“Today is whites day.”) There's horseplay in the bathtub, which the family seems to share rather freely. Marthe the mother ( Isabelle Huppert) does the laundry. Michel the father ( Olivier Gourmet) goes off to work every morning in the green Volvo station wagon. The parents snuggle, the boy plays, the sister in her early 20s sunbathes and smokes in the front yard, the teenage daughter wears mostly black and sulks. The family seems ordinary enough, if not quite conventional. On the radio, they hear breathless coverage of the road's grand opening, and eventually the first car speeds past their house. Workmen wordlessly clear the highway of their hockey sticks, inflatable swimming pool, satellite dish, charcoal grill and so on. Then big trucks arrive to lay down a fresh coating of asphalt, and steel guardrails are installed on each side and down the middle. ![]()
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