Tag: Babysitter
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Babysitter Review: A Zany Exploration Of Misogyny And Motherhood [Sundance 2022]
Whimsical colors and frenzied editing help define Monia Chokri’s “Babysitter,” a screwball suburban fairy tale about embedded misogyny and hidden hypocrisies. After a drunken outing to see an Mma fight, middle-aged office drone Cédric spots a familiar face while walking home with his friends. A local TV news reporter is broadcasting in the crowd in…
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‘Babysitter’ Review: Sexual Mores are Haphazardly Critiqued in a Forced French-Canadian Farce
The clumsy, drunken lunge and uninvited cheek-kiss that precipitates the action in wildly uneven French-Canadian comedy “Babysitter” is oddly appropriate for a film that can also feel like the victim of misguided, intrusive, if hardly malevolent exuberance. Far less coherent than her more focused and confident debut “A Brother’s Love,” Monia Chokri’s second feature is…
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All Rights Adds ‘The Thing Behind the Door’ to Cannes Market Slate
Hong Kong- and Paris-based All Rights Entertainment has added “The Thing Behind the Door” to its pre-Cannes and Cannes Market slate of films. The picture is a female-led French horror which is currently shooting and is to be delivered by the fourth quarter of this year.All Rights pitches the film as a “Lovecraftian creature feature.”…