A class-conscious family drama bringing together the unlikely cast of Gillian Anderson, Léa Seydoux and Martin Compston in support of lead actor Kacey Mottet Klein as 12-year-old Simon, whose visits to a Swiss mountaintop ski lodge to steal from tourists mask a quite complex and disturbing situation at home.
Mottet Klein gives an impressive performance as a boy growing up too soon, while Seydoux proves a volatile foil as the woman who should be looking after him. Although the tone is generally downbeat, there are moments of comedy as Simon goes about his business – much to the admiration of his peers on the grotty estate – while trying to avoid the attentions of the adults in the promised land up the mountain.
