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French films Comedy/Thriller
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The latest film from Belgian director Lucas Belvaux is this surprisingly effective mélange of film noir thriller, comedy and social drama – an unusual combination of genres if ever there was one. Belvaux had previously won acclaim for his 2002 thriller Cavale (part of his celebrated 2002 Trilogy ), and it looks from this latest offering that this is the genre in which the director...
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Affaire de famille was presumably intended to be a blackly comedic thriller but the result feels more like a juvenile Hitchcockian take on the theatre of the absurd. It is hard to know which lets the film down more - its script (which has the sophistication and realism of an episode of Scooby Doo, but with none of the charm)...
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