A very short film of 8 minutes.It's morning and the characters are sleeping it off after a New Year's Eve party. We all know the feeling and understandably there is little dialogue. Francois Ozon who wrote and directed the film has his naked characters wandering listlessly around the high-rise apartment. While drinking his "Alka-Seltzer" the man watches a couple engaging in sex in a neighbouring apartment. When he drops his glass and gathers up the broken pieces he spots a crawling mass of large black ants underneath the kitchen bin. He seems dazed at the sight of them and exclaims to his girl friend that the ants are attacking. Francois Ozon is in one of his teasing moods, I think. He only tells so much, leaves so much unsaid. It's strange when you come to think of it that the ants could appear on the umpteenth storey, and do they have any significance? I think Ozon is leaving it to each of us to finish off the film as we would have it. As it is, it's just an unfinished fragment begging for an ending!l
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