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Bookmark this pageLast Screening (2011)
Director: Laurent Achard
Movie review
From Time Out Online
Laurent Achard stretches a single joke up to and beyond breaking point in this fitfully amusing, if excessively glib satire on screen violence and cinephelia. Sylvain (Pascal Cervo) oversees his little one-screen arthouse picture palace that plays Renoir’s ‘French Can-Can’ on loop and in between screenings recites passages of dialogue with the patrons. But the screen is set for closure, so some of Sylvain’s more violently unsavoury pastimes may have to be curbed. Unlike such cerebral slashers as ‘Psycho’ and ‘Peeping Tom’ – to which this is an unabashed paean – Achard’s film is out-and-out preposterous, a soulless essay that’s livened by a smattering of striking imagery and a few neat juxtapositions, but nothing to really sink your teeth in to.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Laurent Achard
Cast: Pascal Cervo, Charlotte Van Kemmel, Karole Rocher, Austin Morel, Brigitte Sy
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 81 mins
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