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France    Isabel Huppert

A raucous, exuberant family lives right next to a highway that has apparently been abandoned. They play street hockey in the road, have easy chairs and portable pools out there...treat it as their front yard. But then the state opens the road and their troubles begin.

The now-busy highway changes their lives drastically. Their style of living collapses...they turn insular and against each other.

The film acts as a clumsy metaphor for the perils of modern life...forcing good people apart with its machines, noise and alienation. Would have been more effective as a 30 minute short. Stretched out to feature length it wore out its welcome.

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