New Jersey Stage - July/August 2014 | Page 22

“we know we’re not in for an easy ride, and when we first glimpse the enormous chimney of a nuclear reactor’s core, it looms over the drama like Vesuvius over Pompeii.” A nuclear power plant worker puts his health in jeopardy when he falls for a co-worker. movies to critique modern French society. Most relied on in-your face-shocks, and movies like Irreversible, Martyrs and Baise-Moi are among the most controversial films ever released. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central may well signify the beginning of a new French movement, one that again employs horror tropes, but relies on brooding unseen menace rather than onscreen terrors. New Jersey Stage From the movie’s opening credits - rendered in red on black Futura Extra Bold Condensed, the ubiquitous and over-used font that signifies “Edgy French Drama” in the same way red on white Akzidenz-Grotesk screams “Grossout American Comedy” we know we’re not in for an easy ride, and when we first glimpse the enormous chimney of a nuclear reactor’s core, it looms over the July 2014 pg 22