Chronic (2015)

Slo naslov: -

Država: Mehika, Francija

Jezik: Angleščina

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 93' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Drama

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Michel Franco

Scenarij: Michel Franco

Igrajo: Tim Roth, David Dastmalchian, Elizabeth Tulloch, Michael Cristofer

[ENG]

Oscar nominee Tim Roth (The Hateful Eight, Selma) is David, a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated, he develops strong and intimate relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work, David is struggling with an ongoing burden of guilt and remorse. As the weight becomes unbearable, David must face his past in order to heal. Winner of the 2015 Cannes Best Screenplay award, Chronic is an enigmatic and deeply moving character study from Mexican auteur Michel Franco (After Lucia). Poignant and reflective, but also unsentimental and challenging in its intriguing moral dimensions, it features a career-best performance from Roth as a man at the end of his emotional tether.

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It's a stinker of an ending tacked on to a disappointing third act (which is at least lifted up by Bartlett's performance), and it's a shame because so much of what went on before was so good: a tender, unsentimental, unexploitative look at an existence that all too many people have, and what it is to be someone who looks after them. [Oliver Lyttelton, The Playlist]

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