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Vic + Flo Saw a Bear nimbly juggles genre elements, subverting expectations along the way to a final act that leaves a dark, lingering impression.
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Ultimately, "Vic + Flo" becomes both horrific and strangely, surreally beautiful, in a final moment in the afternoon sun. Mar 13, 2014 | Rating: 3/4
Ultimately, "Vic + Flo" becomes both horrific and strangely, surreally beautiful, in a final moment in the afternoon sun.
Moira MacDonald
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. Feb 13, 2014 | Full Review…
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.
David Rooney
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. Feb 6, 2014 | Full Review…
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.
Manohla Dargis
As Côté dives deeper into these moods, the film turns aggressive and impressionistic, moving from low-key drama to tragicomic fairy tale. Feb 6, 2014 | Full Review…
As Côté dives deeper into these moods, the film turns aggressive and impressionistic, moving from low-key drama to tragicomic fairy tale.
Drew Hunt
It's an ominous, claustrophobic, unhappily sapphic work whose thunderclap of a climax instills terror and awe of the fates' petty, whimsical cruelties. Feb 4, 2014 | Full Review…
It's an ominous, claustrophobic, unhappily sapphic work whose thunderclap of a climax instills terror and awe of the fates' petty, whimsical cruelties.
Inkoo Kang
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. Nov 22, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Liam Lacey
Vic + Flo Saw A Bear is a very strange film, one that's fully realized yet feels like it can veer off into any direction at a moment's notice. Jun 20, 2019 | Rating: 7.7/10 | Full Review…
Vic + Flo Saw A Bear is a very strange film, one that's fully realized yet feels like it can veer off into any direction at a moment's notice.
C.J. Prince
Both women's performances are excellent, and the setting of rural Quebec is serene. Aug 21, 2018 | Full Review…
Both women's performances are excellent, and the setting of rural Quebec is serene.
Deirdre Crimmins
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. Feb 16, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Steve Erickson
Even if completely taken at face value, though, Côté pulls no punches by letting you pass your own judgment on those who're left. Jun 21, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Even if completely taken at face value, though, Côté pulls no punches by letting you pass your own judgment on those who're left.
Jared Mobarak
[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. Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…
[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.
Laura Clifford
Equal parts love story and horror show, it honors two unapologetically unassimilable women. May 22, 2014 | Full Review…
Equal parts love story and horror show, it honors two unapologetically unassimilable women.
Melissa Anderson
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