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Philly FF Review: Cages
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A darkly amusing, strangely insightful and very well-acted French romance drama, Olivier Masset-Depasse's Cages is about how far one person will go to hang on to a passionate love affair that, for a variety of unimpeachable reasons, has simply run its course. It's a movie about that panicky feeling you get when you know the romance has died and, as such, Cages is almost too personal and painful to truly "enjoy" in the traditional sense, but Masset-Depasse keeps the story moving along briskly -- even if his third act destinations seems ported in from a weirder and less interesting film.
Anne Coesens plays Eve, a paramedic who's madly in love with her bar-owner husband Damien, but when a horrific ambulance accident leaves Eve with a seriously pronounced stutter, she retreats into herself and becomes a silent and self-pitying shell of her former self. After a year passes and Eve is still struggling to form full words, Damien drops a bombshell: He's worried that Eve is no longer than woman he once fell in love with ... oh, and there's a seriously sexy beer distributor called Lea who just might have caught Damien's eye.
Review: The Intruder
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If Claire Denis wants to make films that push character and linear plot to the side and focus on
something else, then she's welcome to it, but she can't have her cake and eat it too. The Intruder is a film
that has a plot - one that is selfishly hidden from the viewer. I think the story is about a man who commits a
murder, leaves the country, and spends his time on the run trying to track down a long lost son, all while recovering
from a heart transplant. But I couldn't tell you who the murder victim was or whether or not we ever meet the son. By
the end of the film key characters have come and gone without ever being clearly introduced, confusing dream sequences
have been pigtailed together with the real story as well as shots from other French films, and the main character has
spoken less than five or six pages of dialogue. All of these demerits could be praise, of course, if the imagery of the
film told a story of its own or spoke to us in a unique language. But if that's what it's doing, then I just don't speak
the language.
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