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…
First published by Little White Lies Destruction Babies opens with an audiovisual contradiction: while wide shots of boats in the port at Matsuyama on Shikoku Island are shown in montage, the calm of these images is disrupted by a raucous electric guitar growling with discordant menace on the film’s soundtrack. Once the setting has been…
“I am an American, and I killed Americans. I am a human being, and I killed human beings. And I did it in my society.” The speaker is Edmund Kemper, a serial killer, rapist, necrophile and cannibal, arrested in 1973 shortly after calling the police to turn himself in, and here interviewed in his prison…
After writing and directing the self-financed, darkly comic cult film Murder Party (2007) and the slow-simmering, lo-fi revenger Blue Ruin (2013) – the latter being selected for the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes where it won the FIPRESCI Prize – Jeremy Saulnier has now turned his craft to the genre-inflected siege thriller Green Room that…
“I just want to find my daughter,” declares Fujishima Akikazu (Koj iYakusho). Lost to a haze of pills, alcohol and psychiatric disorders, this destructively aggressive ex-cop turned security guard has just been interviewed by the police regarding some young murder victims found in the convenience store near where he works, when his ex-wife Kiriko calls…