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Critics Consensus: Custody uses formal restraint -- and a series of searing performances -- to take a hard-hitting look at the often painful bond between parents and children.
Critic Consensus: Custody uses formal restraint -- and a series of searing performances -- to take a hard-hitting look at the often painful bond between parents and children.
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Legrand in his feature debut shows laudable technical ability and discipline.
As in all good movies of this kind, the ordeal of the children is not skimped. They bear the brunt, and the legacy, of the anguish.
Legrand... seems precociously adept at turning the screws of suspense...
"Custody" can be difficult, even wrenching to watch, but it always plays fair with the audience, and the experience, worth every minute expended, is impossible to forget.
We've all seen these sorts of domestic bogeymen before in any number of Lifetime movies. But rarely are they presented with the matter-of-fact naturalism that Legrand brings to his Venice Silver Lion winner.
Less nuanced than some of its predecessors but far more stressful, it isn't an easy watch -- nor is it meant to be.
As strained civility is replaced by deep-seeded turmoil, the film turns the trauma of a dissolving marriage and the accompanying fallout into an unwavering portrait of horror.
[Xavier] Legrand is a director to look out for, no question.
One of [director Xavier] Legrand's greatest achievements is its containment: Custody does not explain more or give easy to digest information, demanding our attention. [Full review in Spanish]
"A tense family thriller that presumes great performances".
Tense, brutal and painful. [Full Review in Spanish]
Legrand handles the material brilliantly, combining an intelligent and powerful script with periods of heightened silence and inertia.
I don't like that the daughter's unnecessary subplot doesn't go anywhere, but Denis Ménochet is fantastic here, embodying threat and despair in an anguishing drama that should remind everyone that there is no way to judge a situation fairly when you know only half the story.
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