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Custody

2018 · 93 min

A quietly escalating pressure cooker that keeps you braced, watching a child's fear and a family's fraying edges with unblinking realism.

Tagline
Don't look away.
Overview
Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she’s willing to permit their 17-year-old daughter Josephine to decide living arrangements for herself, Miriam is desperate to keep her youngest, 11-year-old Julien, away from his father. But the magistrate rules in favour of joint custody, and suddenly the boy is thrown directly into the middle of an escalating parental conflict, where it seems inevitable that sides must be chosen.
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • isolation
  • trauma
  • power
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour0
Realism9
Romance0
Tension9
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama, thriller
Directed by
Xavier Legrand
Written by
Xavier Legrand
Starring
Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux, Mathieu Saikaly, Florence Janas, Saadia Bentaïeb, Sophie Pincemaille
Cinematography
Nathalie Durand
Runtime
93 min
Country
France
Languages
Spanish, French

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