Wild Grass

Retiree (?) Georges composes a letter to dentist Marguerite: "We buried my father a week ago... My mother is threatening suicide." (0:39)

Marguerite plays back Georges' message left on her answering machine: "I heard my father saying, 'Your mother tried to commit suicide.'" (0:40)

Two policemen come to Georges' home to ask him to stop contacting Marguerite. Implying that he might follow a similar course he exhorts them, "Look at the state I'm in! If I could, do you know what I'd do? The same thing my old neighbor did! On the dole at 50. Married, two kids. He blew his brains out!" (0:53)

Based on the book: L'incident (French Edition)

stalking | suicide