Open Season addresses the topic of culture shock, experienced by a Parisian couple moving to a village with a strong community of hunters.

Simon and Adélaïde are tired of the city life and leave their Parisian flat with their two children to live in a large country house on the edge of a forest in the village of Saint Hubert des Bois.

However, their departure causes the closing of the village school, whose headmistress is Bernard's wife, so that the latter insists on having the couple and their children go back to Saint Hubert des Bois.

[8] Télérama found it was an unpredictable film, that was moderately critical of hunting practices, unlike an older notorious comedic piece on the subject by Bourdon with Les Inconnus.

The best example will remain the chaotic sequence of the banquet, when Simon, Adelaide and her lawyer father, see their attempt at intimidation transformed into an evening of frank camaraderie, with a lot of wine drinking, roasted pork and a frenzied farandole to the music of Patrick Sébastien.