Roschdy Zem plays a middle school manager in the suburbs. The Principal lasts eighty-two minutes.
Director Chad Chenouga weaves a web with tight threads. We will remember this modest sequence where the two brothers play neither yes nor no, in front of their mother's grave. It's not so often that someone wins at a radio game because they've read Richard Brautigan, a colleague recommends the novel The Dice Man, and a professor recites Martin Eden's ending by heart.