Visually, it makes a real effort to be as poetic as a Carlos Reygadas film (I would even say it blatantly rips it off). But in the end, it's just a few chliched auteur film visions vaguely stapled together without any bigger context. The only purpose I see for this movie is by writing things like “Isabelle Huppert has a love affair with a teenager”, “Guns with laser pointers”, “Racist stereotype of a starving immigrant” or “Boring drone footage” on a piece of paper and play cringe-bingo with it. Bonus points for every animal that dies in this movie.
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