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This is one of the best things I've read on Avclub all year. Kudos Mr. Dowd.

I don't believe you reviewed it, but did you ever watch Hyena (2014)? Flawed, for sure, but some of the little details are great.

Terrific article - will definitely check this one out.

never mind, it's only for domestic shipping, my bad.

Go to amazon UK —> it's 4 pound.

Ordered.

Best episode of Film Club yet; I wish it was longer!

Holy shit I wish 50% of all movies were this bad so that I could keep reading reviews like this!

I didn't say you needed to, per se. I'm saying they seem too nice to each other. They're obviously friends, but in consistently reading both of them over a number of years, it is obvious they look at things differently.

Finally, you guys argued a little bit, or at least cut each other off. This is what has been missing from Film Club. It's obvious from your writing that you look at films differently, so start going off on one another — because that is exactly what keeps people watching the old Siskel and Ebert vids on youtube.

He gave it a B- so why would he blast away?

"not supported by the script" is a line I could have used yesterday, haha.

Please keep doing these no matter how many people read it…Also, I'm interested to see if you choose any Italian genre stuff. Aside from Bava and probably Leone, I don't believe I've come across you writing much about giallos, poliziottescos, or lesser known spaghetti westerns.

I would just start at the beginning with "Chocolat".

Sexual repression between the family members: with the son we see him looking at his sister's cleavage, and then she caresses him in the same way her father does to her later on.

Nicely put, but I disagree. Are you saying that if the film never stated that it was new england and never marked a certain year, you would have not liked it as much? Because that's part of my point: why the need to hammer home this idea of authenticity? And for the record, there was a woman stoned to death in india…

No, not at all. But why set it in a specific time and place if you're not going to? Because the director had to have the
disclaimer at the end being like "hey, look at me, I did a bunch of research."

Because that makes it very surface level; my exact point for not liking the film very much.

Actually, no, one more thing: there are a bunch of scenes that play around with repressed—and not so repressed in the case of the son—feelings of sexuality within the family, yet the film never really does much with it; and this could have been a major theme connected to the possible existence / non-existence of…