Carion wrote and directed Joyeux Noel - about the temporary truce between armies in 1914 - in 2005, which was BAFTA, César and Oscar nominated. He first made Mon Garçon in 2017, in which Guillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent did not know the script, in six days. He repeats the experiment here, with just James McAvoy in the dark. Of course that can't have been it entirely; for example the moment he realises there's no room for his son in the step-father's house is so critical they couldn't chance it that he wouldn't notice. Anyway it becomes very tense. The director clearly valued his composer Laurent Perez Del Mar, who gets third billing, but DP Eric Dumont and editor Loïc Lallemand are equally important contributors. With Claire Foy, Tom Cullen, Gary Lewis.
The Highlands come over as majestic, sombre and cruel.
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