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Calvaire - 7.5/10
From the very beginning there is a bleak, foreboding atmosphere running through this extremely competent piece of French film-making.
The protagonist doesn't have a lot of dialogue but acts the relatively helpless/hapless victim well. ***small spoiler*** It is the performance by the player of Bartel that steals the show with his light switch quick unhinging into pure lunacy.
The claustrophobia that was built only intensifies with the grim realisation that the local population are also sadistic, homicidal, delusional sodomites.
Finally, it really has to be said, without spoiling any of the scenes, that some of the photography is innovative and breath-taking.
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