Was shot in seven weeks during the summer of 2002.
Four members of writer/director Claude Chabrol's family worked on the film. His wife Aurore Chabrol was the script supervisor, his son Thomas Chabrol acted in the film, his other son Matthieu Chabrol composed the score and his stepdaughter Cécile Maistre was the first assistant director.
Claude Chabrol wanted to work with Nathalie Baye since almost casting her in The Hatter's Ghost (1982).