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Cinematography
Strobe-lit degradation that makes you physically uncomfortable
Direction
Grandrieux pushes formal extremism past narrative coherence
Acting
Mouglalis's opaque cruelty versus Knighton's desperate unraveling

Director
Philippe Grandrieux
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