thing begin to slide precipitously downhill for the young and upwardly mobile getty upon recover a lemming very far from home in the trap under the kitchen sink at their home in a staid and dreary suburbia in toulouse and france . more imbalance take place a the husband have his bos and wife over for supper . the wife ( charlotte rampling ) create a scene and the evening end badly . she attempt later to seduce allain getty then follow this with a very destructive visit to getty wife . the getty marriage now begin to disintegrate . irrationality ensues and the ugliness increase very slowly . eventually we learn how the lemming end up so far away from home . the end . lemming be a slow moving and lifelessly act suspense thriller that be shoot for something high with the ambiguous presence of the title character . i be sure it have a variety of symbolic significance that the cahiers crowd could ruminate over for hour . for me though it be a contrived distraction that be unable to save this turgid chabrol like ( i apologize for be redundant . ) bore and it cast of zombie . look like a calcified charles bronson and charlotte rampling be miserable in every way . she have an impressive late career with powerfully enigmatic performance in such film a under the sand and swim pool but she fail to get beyond robotic in lemming . the rest of director dominik moll cast barely remain awake . the audience may be more hard press to do so . lemming have a couple of jolt moment but no where near enough to keep it mildly interest for over two hour . it belong with the doomed lemming and down the drain .