Custody, opening in L.A. on July 13th, in New York on June 29th and going wide in August, is a heartbreakingly sad story of a boy caught between two at-war-getting-divorced parents.
On a par with Loveless, the Russian Cannes Competition film in 2017 and Oscar nominated for Best Foreigh Language Film, each of the boys, sentient but powerless, is used as a pawn. This film almost exceeds the threshold of bearable pain, so painful is to watch the father take his rages out on his son.
The boy’s (Thomas Gioria) acting is superlative. This is his first film but next year you will be able to see him in Adoration.
Denis Ménochet playing the father is also outstanding and is 100% hateful. I moaned in agony for the boy in every other scene. The father cajoles his child, blackmails his child, threatens him with force, is mecurial, cruel and unresponsive,...
On a par with Loveless, the Russian Cannes Competition film in 2017 and Oscar nominated for Best Foreigh Language Film, each of the boys, sentient but powerless, is used as a pawn. This film almost exceeds the threshold of bearable pain, so painful is to watch the father take his rages out on his son.
The boy’s (Thomas Gioria) acting is superlative. This is his first film but next year you will be able to see him in Adoration.
Denis Ménochet playing the father is also outstanding and is 100% hateful. I moaned in agony for the boy in every other scene. The father cajoles his child, blackmails his child, threatens him with force, is mecurial, cruel and unresponsive,...
- 7/16/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Custody, also known by its French title Jusqu’à la garde, tells the seemingly familiar story of a messy divorce, and the inherent conversation of child custody that comes along with it. However, director Xavier Legrand ups the ante by shifting the tone to be electrifying rather than simply dramatic, and this tonal augmentation can be seen clearly in the first U.S. trailer.
As far as feature-length directorial debuts go, Custody is a fantastic achievement for Legrand. The film has been selections at a wide range of film festivals including the distinguished Toronto International and Venice Film Festival (at which Legrand took home the Best Director award). Our own Jared Mobarak caught Custody in Toronto and spoke highly of the film’s depth: “The intensity is too much to bear in the best possible way. Legrand knows exactly where to position his characters and what’s necessary to break them.
As far as feature-length directorial debuts go, Custody is a fantastic achievement for Legrand. The film has been selections at a wide range of film festivals including the distinguished Toronto International and Venice Film Festival (at which Legrand took home the Best Director award). Our own Jared Mobarak caught Custody in Toronto and spoke highly of the film’s depth: “The intensity is too much to bear in the best possible way. Legrand knows exactly where to position his characters and what’s necessary to break them.
- 5/23/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
It’s been a weekend full of reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival, and along with the premieres, it means producers or (if the film is lucky enough) distributors releasing the first look at footage in an attempt to drum up interest and stand out of the pack of hundreds of others at the festival. Well, it seems to have done the trick as we’re posting a round-up today.
First up, we have the first trailer for Let the Corpses Tan, the latest film from Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the duo behind Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears. We reviewed it here, and the preview displays some of the visual inventiveness at play. Along with that, there are previews for three other anticipated projects, including the Netflix documentary One of Us, arriving on the platform on October, as well as a pair of...
First up, we have the first trailer for Let the Corpses Tan, the latest film from Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the duo behind Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears. We reviewed it here, and the preview displays some of the visual inventiveness at play. Along with that, there are previews for three other anticipated projects, including the Netflix documentary One of Us, arriving on the platform on October, as well as a pair of...
- 9/11/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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