14A(14A) Mature Subject Matter

Synopsis

French-language Drama. A well-to-do French family (Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowsi) deals with a series of setbacks and crises.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in a sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, vulgar expressions, and developmental slurs
  • Infrequent use of sexual language and references – some detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence – little blood, no detail; infrequent references to suicide – little detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context; infrequent references to prescription drug abuse in a murder context, some involving animals - no blood or detail

Thematic elements

  • Class and privilege
  • Alienation and resentment
  • Mental illness

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse and sexual language as well as mature subject matter involving suicide

Classification date

November 22, 2017