Bruno Dumont portrays fantastically a group of five friends in northern rural France who are a bunch of imbeciles, while completely fooling us at the beginning of the film making us believe that we were in front of your typical group of innocent and trickster misfits that you come to love and care for and not in fact a group of guys that you end up to despising.

In fact, Dumont perfectly presents us the characters of this group in a short but magnificent very early scene in a hospital room where the brother of one of the friends is dying from HIV/AIDS. In that scene and some others, especially focusing on Freddy, shows us a group of rather ignorant but caring simpletons, and just as when you think that this is the case, the film takes a complete turn and shows us their true colours. They are actually a bunch of racists and misogynistic fools that only care about their motorbikes and at most the feelings and worries among those belonging to the group.

This great writing and plot development is accompanied by great performances from the entire cast. David Douche, playing Freddy, and Marjorie Cottreel, who plays Freddie’s girlfriend Marie, are the two that spend most time under the spotlight, but also the rest of performances, even from those with minimal screen time, are of the highest quality. Those give an already strong script an extra level of realism and emotion which elevates the film’s quality.

One only criticism would be the more sexually explicit charged sequences, a common element in Dumont’s movies, for this particular case they just seem like filler and not much a provider of deeper layers and profundity into the psyche and evolution of our protagonists and story overall.

In any case, besides this minimal element (as it is not overused at all), we get an incredibly subversive and unconventional buddy/hang-out type of movie that does not align at all with the common rules and consequently makes you feel as a viewer a newer and more self-analysing type of experience while watching this sort of film that although being incredibly rough feels at the same time totally refreshing.