Released on: 2003
Rating: 4.00
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Louise-Michel – review
A bad-taste French black comedy putting a spin on British social realist films. It has nicely bizarre moments, says Peter Bradshaw
Gustave de Kervern and Benoоt Delйpine have created a black comedy with the courage of its bad-taste convictions, partly sending up big-hearted Anglo-Saxon films such as The Full Monty and Calendar Girls. When the female workers of a provincial factory are laid off, they wonder what to do with their pooled compensation money. A nude calendar idea is instantly discarded in favour of a proposal from dishevelled co-worker Louise (Yolande Moreau): she says they should hire a hitman to whack the boss, but the only hitman they can find is an incompetent called Michel (Bouli Lanners) who couldn't assassinate his way out of a paper bag. There are some nicely bizarre moments. Louise asks in a bar for the whereabouts of a gunman called Luigi: absolutely everyone gives»
- Peter Bradshaw
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Sucker Punch – review
Zack Snyder, director of 300, takes on the imagination of an institutionalised girl. It's all second-hand artifice, cardboard characters and pyrotechnics, says Steve Rose
Zack Snyder is clearly out to seal his "visionary director" status with this strident anthem to the power of the imagination, but he might well have destroyed it in the process. The threadbare story concerns a young woman named Babydoll (Emily Browning), institutionalised against her will alongside other photogenic beauties and hellbent on escape. In Babydoll's mind, this asylum for the foxily unhinged is reconfigured as a burlesque club/brothel, within which her "dances" are then rereconfigured as kick-ass action missions. Thus she and her sisters must battle robots, dragons, Nazis, etc, while dressed in skimpy fetish gear and wielding phallic weaponry – presumably in the name of "empowerment". It sounds like a pervert's Inception, except there's no base level of reality here. It's all second-hand artifice, cardboard characters,»
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