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Essential Killing

Overview


Genre :

Thriller, War

Release Date :

August 25, 2011 (VOD)

Director :

Jerzy Skolimowski

Starring :

Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, David L. Price, Nicolai Cleve Broch

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  Be the 1st!

“..the minimalism feels a bit affected, but as a near-abstract rumination on war and survival, it has a certain stark potency..”
by Tim Robey [Daily Telegraph]
3 of 5

“..striking cinematography and an internalised perspective makes this wartime thriller worth a look..”
by Rich Cline [Shadows on the Wall]
3 of 4

“..it’s probably best, though, to view it as existential thriller illustrating how violence begets violence..”
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star]
“..effectively presents his nearly anonymous antihero as both hunter and prey, never asking - or expecting..”
by Gary Goldstein [LA Times]
3 of 5

“..delivers a laudably physical performance..”
by David Parkinson [Empire Magazine]
“..a purely physical performance that, in the picture's pockmarks of baleful humor, has something of a silent clown's wariness..”
by Fernando F. Croce [Slant Magazine]

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