Le Souffle (2001)

Highly Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: Le souffle

Writer/Director: Damien Odoul

Cinematographer: Pascale Granel

Cast: Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc, Dominique Chevallier, Maxime Dalbrut, Jean-Claude Lecante, Jean Milord, Stéphane Terpereau, Thierry Benoiton, Pierre Lasvaud, Laurent Simon, Laure Magadoux

Dripping with blood and testosterone, Odoul’s feature debut paints a painfully visceral portrait of a 15-year-old boy, who, filled with meat, alcohol, boredom, and teen angst, wanders around his rural home in search of ways to exercise his raging hormones. Iain.Stott