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Bookmark this pageShark's Son (1993)
Director: Agnès Merlet
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From Time Out Film Guide
Though apparently based on a real-life story, this study of two uncontrollable delinquent brothers - it comes on like Les Valseuses for ten-year-olds - often seems far-fetched. The children are convincing, but the narrative is not, alternating as it does between scenes of outrageous anti-social behaviour, implausible escapes from authority, and poetic interludes of dreamy meditation. Aren't these knowing boys ever just boys? Despite Merlet's admirably unsentimental handling of her amoral script, the two-note tone soon becomes wearisome.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Agnès Merlet
Producer: François Fries
Cast: Sandrine Blancke, Ludovic Van Den Daele, Erick Da Silva full cast
Duration: 90 mins
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