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The opening act offers us happy scenes from a rural, scruffy idyll. Isabelle Huppert and her bluff husband (Olivier Gourmet) live in rolling fields by the side of an apparently disused road. They play hockey in the street. They share baths. One grumpy daughter listens to death metal while her tolerant dad blasts hot jazz from the car stereo. Life changes suddenly and brutally when the trucks move in to transform their quiet thoroughfare into a busy, noisy dual carriageway. Making fine use of the perennially imaginative Agnés Godard’s fluid camera, Meier manages to turn an apparently familiar scene – cars surging down a freeway – into something pointedly surreal. It’s always cheering to encounter a film that defies easy classification, and Ursula Meier’s debut feature is just such a beast. Beginning as a sleepy slice of dirty naturalism, the picture then takes on the quality of an absurdist joke, before descending to much darker places. From Donal Clarke/ Irish Times . The acting, particularly from Isabelle Huppert, is superb.