Masset-Depass, helming his sophomore feature, uses a brisk version of cinema verite to quickly establish Tania and Ivan’s backstory and their banal, work-a-day world of the present. These opening scenes have the look and feel of Dardenne Brothers products of the early 2000s, as Masset-Depass’s handheld cameras capture the cold, biting grime of industrious Liège with clanging immediacy.
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This does sound very powerful. And I know first hand that Liege can be a grim grey place...
Great review.
Thank you Deborah. I have never visited Liege, and recent cinema hasn't placed it high on my list. The Dardennes have set all of their bleak films there, and I would imagine the Liege Tourist Board feels a bit picked on :)
what's with the ioncinema link? you got a job as well? =)
No, not a job. I just review the discs they are kind enough to send me :)
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