Film scholars have written extensively about the role of the landscape in La Fonte Des Neiges . Du Welz shoots the farm like a Bresson film—stark, gray, inhuman. The snow covers the ugliness of the world, but the thaw reveals the truth.
The year 2004 was a watershed moment for extreme French cinema. It was the year that saw the release of Calvaire (Du Welz), Haute Tension (Alexandre Aja), and Articulation of the New French Extremity movement. Critics like James Quandt coined the term "New French Extremity" to describe a wave of films that used graphic violence and sexuality to critique bourgeois morality. La Fonte Des Neiges 2004 Ok.ru