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  Review by Deathy ★★★★

  Score : 8.3/10 ✅

  Seen at Fantasia International Film Festival 2024

  A case where politeness and good manners to a neighbor predominate the space…. but at what cost?

  4PM introduces a very interesting setup. The main couple is put in an absurd situation; their neighbor comes every day at exactly 4 PM and forcefully makes his way to the living room, sits, drinks tea, answers only by yes/no, and waits silently. And that’s it.

  Obviously, there’s a lot going on as we progress into the film, but the premise is absurdly amusing because the couple is exaggeratedly incapable of dealing with this predicament. The suffocating atmosphere and condition of this awkward visit drive everyone insane. On top of that, the…

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  Review by Yves Bouwen ★★★★

  Korean movie based on a novel by Belgian writer Amelie Notomb.

  A couple moves from the city to the country side. They leave a note for their neighbour that they would like to meet him and that he is always welcoooooome. The doctor next door takes that quite literally. Every day he shows up at 4 PM, doesn't interact much and leaves at 6 PM. What follows can be called dramatic absurdity. I am not familiar with the novel. It kept me guessing how it would play out. The ending is one of many what the f**k moments.

  At a certain point we are in the house of the doctor. It is full of clocks. It makes you wonder what will happen in that house when those clocks hit 4 PM. Unfortunately we never learn. It would be stronger without voice over.

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  Review by Brittni 💀 ★★★

  I really liked the way this played with how toxic putting on masks of politeness can be. There were a lot of laughs to be had here, as well as the expected secondhand embarrassment.

  I think it was a tad long and that it kinda lost the plot near the end, but I still had a good time.

  Fantasia 2024 #2

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  Review by matteo dg ★★★½

  4pm has a great & strange story that's so perfectly dramatic and awkward, and delivered charmingly through its direction and the performances but unfortunately overstays its welcome with an unnecessarily long runtime. I loved the setting for the film but I wish they stayed within that space of the two houses rather than leaving it the few times they did. Good film, dramatically quirky and bizarre but could be tightened.

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  Review by balls ★★★½

  Did not know this would be so funny, so many great moments. Its repetition is hilarious, but doesn't finish/evolve into something as satisfying as its first two acts. This is overly long; Would've fit nicely as a fourth Kinds of Kindness instalment if it were more perverted, of lesser quality, and contained an abused Emma Stone.

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  Review by Rik ★★★★

  2024
  4PM
  111 minutes

  Fantasia Festival 2024

  4PM is meant to be a psychological/suspense thriller, but it was funnier than most comedies I’ve recently seen. The first two acts are perfect in my opinion but the last act suffers from being rushed, I think. I just found that the movie lost its spark somewhere along the third act but regained it with an excellent ending.

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  Review by Stella Parisi ★★★

  Une première partie bluffante qui nous tient en haleine avec un concept super atypique, se faisant malheureusement complètement ravager par la deuxième qui fait retomber la tension et le mystère à plat. Dommage que ça soit les cordes principales sur lesquelles jouait le film.

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  Review by AlexandreFR ★★★

  Je vous avoue que « adaptation coréenne d'un roman d'Amélie Nothomb » était pas sur ma carte de bingo pour 2024.

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  Review by Marc-André ★★★

  Fantasia 2024

  L'enfer, c'est les voisins.

  Cette adaptation sud-coréenne de l'un des premiers romans d'Amélie Nothomb, Les catilinaires, avait de quoi intriguer. Le résultat n'est pas inintéressant mais plutôt mitigé. La première partie est bien menée, avec un bon dosage d'humour, d'étrangeté et de mystère, mais le récit m'a semblé s'étirer et se perdre dans ses dévoilements progressifs. Je serais curieux de comparer avec le roman pour mieux comprendre les choix d'adaptation qui ont été effectués.

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  Review by jules ★★★

  i love a man who has a routine 💖

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  Review by TrainJug ★★★★

  The guy presenting this film said something along the lines of “this is one of those films that I don’t like to give much information about, you just have to watch it for yourself.” And I completely agree. I will say that by a technical standpoint this did very well and had amazing acting, cinematography and unique camerawork throughout. Also crazy seeing that all the actors could sit in a room together for about 10 minutes for a scene saying absolutely nothing without breaking character.

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  Review by Guillaume II

  Well executed and for the most part entertaining with a half baked message and theme that kind of falter at the finish line once the credit starts to roll.