vincent must die

The screening link I watched for Stéphan Castang’s feature debut, Vincent Must Die, starts off post-credits with a funny little edit. I don’t think it was part of the movie, glitch or no, but the rest basically falls into place from top to bottom so as to not distract from this review’s intent. The film took off pretty well while at Cannes and has since begun plotting its commercial releases with XYZ Films taking stateside. Karim Leklou stars along with Vimala Pons, François Chattot and Michaël Perez for a story already subject to largely prasieworthy reviews, and even festival programming notes via Fantasia likening Castang’s work to that of Edgar Wright, sans sprightly editing and overtly comical flair. Rather, screenwriter Mathieu Naert takes things down a slightly more darker route while upholding the absurdity and laughs at times. Deadpan energy punctuates the violence a few times amid the multiple spurts […]

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