
Good People

Tom and Linda are thirtysomethings living in Belgium, along the French border. He is a policeman, she is a beautician, and they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Caught between a rock and a hard place, they embark on a get-rich-quick life insurance scam in an attempt to give themselves a fresh start someplace sunny. Their plan is going pretty well … until everything goes wrong, when Philippe, a French gendarme with whom Linda has an affair starts to investigate… Good People also tells the story of a small border town between France and Belgium and its people who can’t seem to face the evil eating away at their community.
A fun story of black humor that does not invent anything new, and can immediately remind you of the Coen brothers. But there is a particular idiosyncrasy in the portrait of this border town of the Ardennes, somewhat abandoned by progress. While the series begins as a more or less classic thriller, the story of Linda and Tom told in flashbacks progressively brings us closer to the day of the accident and is involved in a chain of fortuitous events that cause increasingly absurd situations, bringing it closer to Quentin Dupieux films.