clair denis again revisit her theme of estranged father and men who follow their own bliss in determined fashion and heedless of the emotion toll on their family but while nénette and boni from the early film live in a narrow world of marseille and our examination of louis trebor in the intruder take u from a remote location along the french swiss border to half way around the world and to korea and tahiti . again the film begin in mid stream and with louis and in his sixty and cop with an ail heart while attempt to maintain a high level of fitness . we learn that louis be no stranger to violence a his cabin be the location for smuggle and gunfire a regular occurrence . louis sleep with a large knife under his pillow with rifle nearby . denis be in no hurry to move the action along and and we must patiently build our understanding of louis from his daily activity and the few people he deal with along the frontier include a son and sidney ( grégoire colin and almost unrecognizable with long hair and a wisp of a mustache ) who reject him a a lunatic represent and show a a dedicated father of two . there be many brief scene which and while seemingly unrelated and build up an impression of louis and his milieu . ms godard camera work be exhilarate here . the control metaphor be louis heart transplant for which he go to korea and then to tahiti to search for another son and not find and and where louis new heart reject him just a sidney reject the old . we be accustom to brief scene in denis film which be inexplicable represent nénette astride boni feed with a spoon while a drive by shoot of boni father and then the brief of image of boni with a gunshot wound in the head while a scene of louis in a morgue with a cadaver with the scar of a transplant but the body of sidney . the implication and of the last two and be a rejection and real or imagine and by a father and kill something indefinable in a son .