Abandoned by their father and bereft of their mother who recently died, 19-year-old Boni (Grégoire Colin) and his younger sister Nénette (Alice Houri) are barely on speaking terms, either with life or each other. Boni, a pizza-maker in his better moments, has turned his mother's Marseilles apartment into a space for sexual fantasy-in fine French film form, he lusts after the baker's wife, buns and all, a woman whose good natured sensuality is the polar opposite of his own. When Nénette runs away from boarding school, seven months pregnant, the siblings circle round each other like wary strays. As James Quandt put it, "Les enfants terribles (are) faced with the terrifying prospect of becoming les parents terribles." Nénette and Boni anticipates Denis' masterpiece Beau Travail in its pallette of blinding white sunlight and striking blues. It may be the Mediterranean, but as the song says, "tiny tears make up an ocean." (JB)