“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
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