“I would say that I’m a decent human being with a decent amount of nightmares,” says Julia Ducournau, the French director behind cannibal drama Raw and the Cannes-winning scabrous slice
8
… tense, dark, even abject but also mysterious, thought-provoking and occasionally tender.
9
… more elusive, more poetic, and arguably more intellectually generous than Joachim Trier’s widely praised work [Sentimental Value]
8
… not only a story about vengeance and recognition, but a piercing reflection on collective trauma and moral paralysis in a society broken by fear.
9.5
… less concerned with resolution than with resonance.
6.2
... essentially a set of clichés, dressed in Nordic freshness ...
As Harris Dickinson’s directorial feature debut Urchin was gestating, the British actor was co-starring with Nicole Kidman on Babygirl, while his producing partner Archie Pearch was working with Margot Robbie
6
... no matter how humane and enlightening the film may be, it suffers to some extent from the lack of a clear cinematic form.
8.5
Mixing the grotesque with the tender, the ecstatic with the despairing ... that refuses comfort or neutrality.
In France, Agnes Jaoui is a national institution, best known for her work with Jean-Pierre Bacri, and as his partner from 1987 to 2012, though they continued to work together