Violet

Name: Violet
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Released: May 12, 2017
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Brent Minne, Cesar De Sutter, Fania Sorel, Jeroen Van der Ven, Koen De Sutter

2017

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Ryan Bruce Levey Film Distribution and PR Services | Release Date: May 12, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Brent Minne, Cesar De Sutter, Fania Sorel, Jeroen Van der Ven, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer, Raf Walschaerts

Summary: 15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends from the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable - how he feels about it.

Director: Bas Devos

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Family

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Ronnie Scheib

May 11, 2017

Devos depicts stages of grief not as a series of emotions but as an evolving alchemy of perception that surrounds the protagonist, distorting time, space, color and light in patterns of dislocation, muffling the synapses that connect sounds and images. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

May 11, 2017

[An] evocative and atmospheric feature. Read full review

The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic

May 11, 2017

This is an exquisitely shot suburban tale of trauma, stretching the “show-don’t-tell” golden rule of filmmaking to the furthest reaches. Read full review

Christopher Gray

May 11, 2017

Devos's impressive debut bores into the mourning process and its piquant combination of emotional numbness and sensory vulnerability, rigorously avoiding finding an easy way out of this quagmire. Read full review

Noel Murray

May 11, 2017

Violet never progresses. It’s just one long, slow wallow. That said, Devos and cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis devise so many striking images that the movie is always a pleasure to watch. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

May 12, 2017

For this viewer, the formal element and the narrative never quite cohered, and I wound up admiring the movie for its ambition while unsatisfied with its achievement. Read full review

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