Sébastien Pilote

TIFF 2013 | Le Démantèlement (Sébastien Pilote, Canada)—Contemporary World Cinema

By Robert Koehler An exceptionally pokey attempt to bring King Lear (and maybe just a bit of Père Goriot) to the Québécois farmlands, Sébastien Pilote’s Le Démantèlement reduces the spectacle of patriarchal self-destruction to the level of watching a cup of tea grow cold on the table. Something happened here, but oh my, how utterly…
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