Cult’s time, place and audience at LFF 2023 first published by BFI (under the title LFF Cult 2023: the freaky and the wrong at this year’s festival), 6 October 2023 The phrase ‘instant cult’, like ‘instant classic’, involves a paradox, even an oxymoron, with the qualifier ‘instant’ adding an element that goes very much against…
It would seem that the protagonist (Karim Leklou) of Stéphan Castang’s feature debut (scripted by Mathieu Naert) is rather like Romeo…, John Tucker…, The Beast…, Babysitter…, Suicide Girls…, Stupid Teenagers…, Horny Teenagers…, Nerdy Prudes…, Surf Nazis…, All Strippers…, All Superheroes…, All Critics… and indeed Everyone… before him, in that, at least according to the film’s…