This coming-of-age story is deeply concerned with the salvation found in the meditative power of the arts.
Given all its clumsily executed genre detours and tonal fluctuations, Rebecca Zlutowski’s film suggests an amateur juggling act.
Greatly cognizant of the revenge genre’s penchant for hypocritical demagoguery, director Arnaud des Pallières unsettles the audience’s usual feelings of vicarious blood lust.
