Bastards

Name: Bastards
Genre: Drama
Released: October 23, 2013
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Lola Créton, Michel Subor, Vincent Lindon

2013

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Sundance Selects | Release Date: October 23, 2013 | Not Rated

Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Lola Créton, Michel Subor, Vincent Lindon

Summary: Bastards follows Marco (Vincent Lindon), a captain on a container-ship who is called urgently back to Paris by his desperate sister Sandra.

Director: Claire Denis

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Robert Abele

Oct 31, 2013

Bastards is a thriller truly etched in darkness, pools of black broken mostly by the stricken yet soldiering faces of her main characters, like ships in a sea of stormy nights. Read full review

Jesse Cataldo

Oct 8, 2013

Conditioning the audience to find dread in every seemingly innocent gesture, the film turns even the simplest touch between family members into something tinged with menace. Read full review

Scott Foundas

Aug 22, 2013

Even at its most opaque, Bastards always exerts a dreamlike pull rooted in Denis’ rhythmic layerings of image, sound and music. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Feb 18, 2014

Because genre lets us know roughly what to expect, it can put us at ease, which is the last thing Denis wants to do. So she leaves questions hanging and mysteries unsolved. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

May 25, 2013

The Bastards feels like what happens when an undeniably great filmmaker stoops to sensationalism -- it’s a smarter, odder film than someone else would make with the same material, but it’s still smart, odd sensationalism. Read full review

David Rooney

May 25, 2013

A stylishly made but unyielding drama. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 25, 2013

Denis's drama intrigues more than it actually delivers...Sleight of hand is all well and good. But sooner or later a film must pay up. Read full review

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