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- Rambling but strangely compelling, Oh Mercy!’s documentary bedrock gives the investigation at the heart of the film a real authenticity. From around its midpoint, this uneven film becomes a riveting, compassionate interrogation drama.
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May 30, 2019 · Oh Mercy! first look: police and poverty vie in a sombre French noir. Arnaud Desplechin looks into the past and out from the shadows in a dour new detective story, weaving a web of mystery and misery which doesn’t quite connect all the dots. Elisabet Cabeza.
Rambling but strangely compelling, Oh Mercy!’s documentary bedrock gives the investigation at the heart of the film a real authenticity. From around its midpoint, this uneven film becomes a riveting, compassionate interrogation drama. Read More.
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- Arnaud Desplechin
Sep 16, 2019 · Oh Mercy! is a striking stylistic departure for Desplechin. By the standards of florid pseudo auto-biopics such as Kings and Queen and Ismael’s Ghosts, this film is an exercise in formal and tonal restraint.
May 22, 2019 · 'Oh Mercy,' the latest from French auteur and Croisette regular Arnaud Desplechin ('My Golden Days,' 'Ismael's Ghosts') stars Bond Girl Lea Seydoux as a drug addict suspected of...
This latest could be accused of neither flaw; indeed, in some respects, in its straightforward, robustly realist look at the daily working lives of a couple of cops in Roubaix, an impoverished...
- Arnaud Desplechin
May 23, 2019 · Festivals, News, Reviews. “There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them.” This line, which closes film noir classic “ The Naked City,” would fit comfortably among the dialogue of Arnaud Desplechin ’s latest work, “ Oh Mercy!,” making its debut in the Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Sep 27, 2019 · From a serial sexual predator terrorizing the city at night to an unkempt walk-in whose dubious claims of being attacked by stereotypically described Arabs are quickly deduced and shrewdly ignored, the first act can be a very literal representation of the investigative process and the closest this film comes to feeling like the source of its ins...
