the intruder ( lintrus ) be a visual pilgrimage through a mysterious life . grizzle michel subor play louis trebor like jason bourne a an old man with a hidden past and living simply in an isolated hut in the wood for justifiably paranoid reason ( but attract pretty young woman who can be useful to him ) . we learn more about him through dream and flashback and a journey that may unfold chronologically or not and as well a through his brusque interaction with family and lover and business associate and a striking nemesis . like the limey and the film resonate with parent or child regret and a suspicious past reveal through clip from an old film with the same actor a a young man ( here paul gégauff 1965 adventure film le reflux ) . in a complete contrast of mood and we meet his son sidney ( grégoire colin ) who have to be the sexy house husband in the world and a he sweetly and seductively do household repair and care for a baby and a toddler and every need of his work wife . surely director or co writer claire denis must have create him a a woman fantasy if ever there be one and a lesson to other filmmaker on film foreplay . there an additional extended scene where he seek his father in the wood while carefully carry his angelic baby in a pouch . he be everything his father be not and have every relationship his father be incapable of sustain while no wonder he think his father be a lunatic . i spend the rest of the film in dread that something bad would happen to him a the true nature of the heart of his alienated father be very gradually play out before our eye . the film be a puzzle and but subor be ruthlessly fascinating a we watch him traverse country and negotiate nefarious deal and and the voice over narration for denis beau travail be annoy anyway . we have to figure out from skyline and incidental signage that he be travel to geneva and korea and the south pacific . time passing be indicate by the season change and scar be create and heal . there be lot of image of water for cleansing and for distance . continue her fascination with the morphing of colonialism into globalization and as well a play a bit on stereotype of the mysterious orient and russian criminal and denis have incorporate element from robert louis stevenson and paul gauguin and marlon brando tahiti idyll and a 40 page memoir by french philosopher jean luc nancy and the last for the title and heart transplant plot use for an ironic theme of limited immortality which do have consequence . while louis think he succeed in be above boundary and rule and moral and there be some amusement in the last act a the local do not quite know what to do with him and try to help him solve his quixotic odyssey and even a he again lie in isolation . several people in the audience leave in frustration at the elliptical and but strikingly beautiful and story tell method . the unconventional narrative do raise a lot of plot question on detail .