105 minute running time … the story of a French family who have a coffee plantation someplace in Africa, and there’s some sort of civil war or unrest, and they don’t flee but choose to stay. What are you supposed to think about this? Are they just foolish? Isabelle Ooooo-pair comes across as a little crazy, then she goes full crazy (as does her pretty-boy son, the yellow dog). I wasn’t thrilled … Farr recommended it (“intense and absorbing exploration of emerging madness, all bound up in familial, racial, and national ties”), but it didn’t really ring true to me. Was Ooooo-pair really that disconnected from France? Was she that oblivious to the coming chaos and violence? Do you want to sympathize with her or pity her? You can give it a miss.

Anthony Quinn correctly writes: “… [the] real error is failing to spot the insoluble contradiction in Huppert's character: how can a woman so resourceful be so blind to the realities around her?”

Spoilers: They cut the scene in which the son kills his father … they made it ambiguous in the final edit how the father died, but in the deleted scene you can see he still has money on him after being shot and the son strolling off outside with the shotgun. I don’t know why they didn’t choose to show that in the end?