God of Carnage

Two eleven-year-olds had a fight in the playground. Since one of them lost two teeth due to being hit with a stick, their parents arrange a meeting to discuss the unfortunate incident. Annette and Alain’s visit to Veronique and Michel’s grand Parisian bourgeois apartment begins with polite chit-chat and calm and conciliatory tones of the well-mannered people, but in the carefully cultivated bourgeois refinement the cracks quickly appear. The relations become increasingly tense and the situation escalates into mutual and general recriminations of increasing proportions. We witness a real psychological war between the couples, and long-buried disagreements in both marriages come to light. 

We witness a real psychological war between the couples, and long-buried disagreements in both marriages come to light.

The conflict, which they have approached with all sobriety, tolerance and diplomacy, reveals the darkest sides of their personalities. Their outbursts of anger and repressed aggression increase with the amount of alcohol they have consumed. Sexist, racist and homophobic remarks abound, and their extreme egocentricity and lack of any empathy are striking ... The action escalates, and the conflict between the sons is just a forgotten cue.