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Violet

2014

Bas Devos

César De Sutter, Raf Walschaerts, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer ...

5.9

217

Drama In a deserted shopping centre, Jesse’s best friend Jonas is stabbed to death as Jesse looks on, paralysed by what is taking place. The youthful perpetrators run off and their motives remain unclear. The event marks the beginning of a horrific and isolated time for Jesse. Left alone with his pain and probably his own feelings of guilt he can find no words to express what he is feeling – either to his parents or to the other boys in his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Beautifully shot images speak way louder than words (...) [An] striking debut film"	POS
United States	Ronnie Scheib Variety	"A visually stylized, highly original depiction of a teen's stages of grief."	POS
United States	Nikola Grozdanovic IndieWire	"An exquisite, artistic & triumphant tour-de-force"	POS
United States	Christopher Gray Slant	"It bores into the mourning process and its piquant combination of emotional numbness and sensory vulnerability (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Village Voice	"'Violet' is deft and rigorous, oblique to the point of inscrutability (...) It's also exceptionally beautiful"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I wound up admiring the movie for its ambition while unsatisfied with its achievement (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"Beautiful, but painfully slow (...) A young director with an amazing eye (...) Devos puts too much stock in his visual style to carry the meaning of a thinly plotted, snail-paced slice-of-life."	NEU

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