[...] an online betting site has established Dominik Moll's "Lemming," the opening-night film of the 2005 Festival de Cannes, as a 2-to-1 favorite to win the Palme d'Or. If it does, then the jury must develop a taste for rodents stuck in drainpipes, a sudden suicide, a ghostly possession and a flying minicamera that lets you spy on your boss' bedroom activities. At times suspenseful and evocative but more often just silly, "Lemming" does possess a mordant humor as it watches characters spin out of control.

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