Stillwater gives itself over to drastic plot twists that derail what was already a film over-stuffed with narrative incident and ideas.
The film comes to concern a selfless martyr before morphing, most absurdly, into a disease-of-the-week tearjerker.
The film ends up defining Loïe Fuller less by her innovations than by her willingness to suffer for her art.
Criterion has done a commendable job in supplementing Audiard’s film.
Audiard’s film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.
Its sin is its willingness to interrogate ripped-from-the-headlines topicalities in service of an essentially rote idea.
A crude love story about humans, animals, and the scant qualities separating the two.
It’s occasionally too icily removed, but it compensates through its perpetual concern with understanding its characters and their untenable situations.
Where Do We Go Now? is an ungainly follow-up to director Nadine Labaki’s 2007 Caramel.
A cult classic in the making, Audiard’s A Prophet receives a much better shake on DVD than its main character does in prison.
It’s only natural that Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet is situated primarily within a roughneck French prison.