Starring: Dennis Lavant, Edith Scob, Kylie Minogue, Eva Mendes
Director: Leos Carax
Running Time: 113 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: January 28th 2013

Now here’s a movie to divide audiences. As its 90% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes suggests, it’s had an awful lot of love from the critics (several critics groups have given it their Best Foreign Film prize), but when I was watching it I couldn’t help but think a lot of people will find it infuriating and obtuse. But then, it almost seems to be challenging the viewer to think that, constantly hinting at the threads that tie it together before flying off on another flight of fancy that seems designed to frustrate the audience’s expectation. [Read more…]