Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 4
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Release Date: Jun 18, 1999 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
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Playing like a combination of Todd Solondz, John Waters, and a dysfunctional and incestuous generic television sitcom, director François Ozon's blacker than night psychological family comedy touches on many aspects that would frighten off most casual viewers on concept alone. From the opening scene of a father gunning down his family (albeit experienced audibly while the camera remains fixed on an external shot of the exceedingly proper and mundane suburban home) to mother/son sex, and even
Jun 18, 1999 Wide
Jan 13, 2004
Mars Films
All Critics (19) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (5) | DVD (7)
It's a little like John Waters crossed with Eric Rohmer.
Strictly for anyone who was pissed off that the guy in Brisseau's Secret Things never took his clothes off.
A work of corrective sexual politics.
An over-the-top sitcom spoof on a bourgeois family.
Edgy to a fault and then some.
Watch Visitor Q instead.
December 13, 2009
Super Reviewer
Like a poor dumb comedy version of Pasolini's Teorema
August 7, 2009Super Reviewer
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