The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
[An] evocative and atmospheric feature.
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Belgium, Netherlands · 2014
1h 25m
Director Bas Devos
Starring Cesar De Sutter, Raf Walschaerts, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Family
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15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Traumatized, he tries to recover the normal life that he once lived. As he interacts with his friends and family, he tries to explain the unexplainable --- how he truly feels about that one fateful day.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
[An] evocative and atmospheric feature.
Slant Magazine by Christopher Gray
Devos's impressive debut bores into the mourning process and its piquant combination of emotional numbness and sensory vulnerability, rigorously avoiding finding an easy way out of this quagmire.
For this viewer, the formal element and the narrative never quite cohered, and I wound up admiring the movie for its ambition while unsatisfied with its achievement.
The Playlist by Nikola Grozdanovic
This is an exquisitely shot suburban tale of trauma, stretching the “show-don’t-tell” golden rule of filmmaking to the furthest reaches.
Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
Violet never progresses. It’s just one long, slow wallow. That said, Devos and cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis devise so many striking images that the movie is always a pleasure to watch.
Devos depicts stages of grief not as a series of emotions but as an evolving alchemy of perception that surrounds the protagonist, distorting time, space, color and light in patterns of dislocation, muffling the synapses that connect sounds and images.
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