If you are a mom, would you take your kids across a busy highway, everyday, instead of doing something about the problem?
Sometimes a faulty premise can ruin the whole movie. I suppose the film is meant to be satirical and allegorical, but, seriously, no sane mother (nor father) would send their kids across back and forth on a busy highway. How about workarounds? Build a homebrew overpass? Drive 10km around it? Anything would make more sense than this. The film provides no reason why I should overlook this fault, so it was a pretty painful viewing experience for me. It also doesn't have the absuridst or surrealistic feel -- not until much later anyway -- so I couldn't view it that way either. Also, for some reason, there's a lot of bath scenes and near-nakedness with the entire family -- except for Isabelle Huppert.
At the Q&A, the director/writer shared some insight on her ideas for the movie. That helped, but I don't think most of them were realized in the finished product.
