Following Gallivant, his curious documentary about a journey around the English coast with his mother and handicapped daughter, and This Filthy Earth, a puzzling English rural tragedy inspired by Emile Zola's The Earth, the maverick British filmmaker Andrew Kötting's new film is made in France and in French, apparently for budgetary reasons. It's an uneasy, whimsical tale about the dysfunctional household of an elderly Russian émigré living in the Pyrenees with his faithful old Russian servant (a figure out of Chekhov who also appears in This Filthy Earth), his youngish French wife and their four children. One day he discovers his daughter engaged in what appears to him to be inappropriate sexual conduct with her teenage brother. He angrily throws the boy out of the house, whereupon the lad takes to the trees vowing never to touch the ground again, and the family falls apart. It's an allegory of sorts, a mannered, weirdly dislocated picture offering its thanks at the end to those legendary arboreal swingers Tarzan and Robin Hood.