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Curling

Curling

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  • Canada (Quebec)
  • 2010
  • · 92m

Director Denis Côté
Cast Emmanuel Bilodeau, Philomène Bilodeau, Roc LaFortune, Sophie Desmarais, Muriel Dutil, Yves Trudel
Genre Drama

Set in a rural Québec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father, lives with his teenage daughter Julyvonne. He works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day, and goes to unusual lengths to protect Julyvonne from the outside world, which has scarred him.

Stream Curling

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What are critics saying?

75

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

A bleakly allusive look at frozen lives, Curling is very much a specialty item - a movie that goes nowhere slowly.

70

Village Voice by Nicolas Rapold

In Curling, his (Cote) interest in individuals with "one foot outside of society" continues with a crisp portrait of a Québécois solitary man and his cloistered preteen daughter.

40

Variety by Boyd van Hoeij

The emotional life of a Canuck bowling-alley handyman slowly turns to slush in Curling, the latest slice of arthouse misery from Quebecois director Denis Cote.