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Critics Consensus: Vic + Flo Saw a Bear nimbly juggles genre elements, subverting expectations along the way to a final act that leaves a dark, lingering impression.
Critic Consensus: Vic + Flo Saw a Bear nimbly juggles genre elements, subverting expectations along the way to a final act that leaves a dark, lingering impression.
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (2)
Ultimately, "Vic + Flo" becomes both horrific and strangely, surreally beautiful, in a final moment in the afternoon sun.
It's all very well to toy with genre elements by making incongruous aesthetic and tonal choices and adding an offbeat sensibility. But the director still needs to make us care about his characters.
The title may sound like a children's book and the bear may be metaphoric, but make no mistake: This is a story with surprisingly great, big teeth.
As Côté dives deeper into these moods, the film turns aggressive and impressionistic, moving from low-key drama to tragicomic fairy tale.
It's an ominous, claustrophobic, unhappily sapphic work whose thunderclap of a climax instills terror and awe of the fates' petty, whimsical cruelties.
The way it unfolds feels less about a conventional story than a series of set-ups and what-next moments in a genre-bender that might be called nature-noir.
Both women's performances are excellent, and the setting of rural Quebec is serene.
In the end, the genre-bending of "Vic + Flo Saw a Bear" makes way for a grim romanticism. Vic and Flo's fate is simultaneously terrifying and achingly hopeful.
Even if completely taken at face value, though, Côté pulls no punches by letting you pass your own judgment on those who're left.
[Côté's] actors pull us into his strange slice of life on the edge of a forest where humor, kindness, longing and brutality make for an artful mix.
Equal parts love story and horror show, it honors two unapologetically unassimilable women.
It's all about love. And neediness. And perhaps the worst possible death you could imagine falling onto deep into the dark woods of Canada.
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