{"id":10889,"date":"2016-03-16T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10889"},"modified":"2016-03-16T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:47:45","slug":"vic-flo-saw-a-bear-2013-denis-cote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10889","title":{"rendered":"Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013, Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched this on the eve of this year’s Berlin fest, where C\u00f4t\u00e9 has a new film premiering. I’ve seen his Bestiaire<\/a><\/em> but thought I’d check out one of his fictional features as part of the Festifest<\/a> Quest. Was enjoying this on the level of a Sundancey relationship drama about interesting characters. The movie’s good at creating characters – nobody here seems to have been blandly injected for plot purposes. Longer-than-usual takes, kind of an unusual trajectory without feeling too indie-quirky. Then an ending I didn’t see coming at all. I mean, the movie lets you know it’s coming, sets it up pretty well, but… that’s just not how movies end, so you don’t believe the signs until it’s too late.<\/p>\n

Vic+Flo ont vu un barracuda:<\/em>
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Vic is Pierrette Robitaille (of horny-Snow-White movie L’odyss\u00e9e d’Alice Tremblay<\/em>), just out of prison, staying at her disabled uncle’s house under the twice-weekly watch of sensitive parole officer Guillaume (Marc-Andr\u00e9 Grondin of Goon<\/em> and C.R.A.Z.Y.<\/em>). Younger Flo (Romane Bohringer of Savage Nights<\/em>) moves in, is more restless than Vic, frequenting the local bar where she picks up guys. Flo, also an ex-con, is being followed by a sinister couple: Jackie and her mute enforcer, who pay increasingly threatening visits<\/p>\n

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A. Nayman:<\/p>\n

If this ursine-monikered movie has a true spirit animal, it’s Marie Brassard’s scarily cherubic interloper Jackie, who belongs on any short list of great contemporary villainesses; when she sneers at Vic that \u201cpeople like me don’t exist in real life,\u201d it’s a taunt that at once solidifies and undermines the parable-like qualities of Cote’s storytelling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How parole officer Guillaume first appears to Flo:<\/em>
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Won an award in Berlin, where it played with Closed Curtain<\/em>, Side Effects<\/em>, Nobody’s Daughter Haewon<\/em> and big winner Child’s Pose<\/em>, which I haven’t heard about since. Apparently it’s considered “slow cinema,” though I didn’t find it that slow. Also, I must’ve missed the bear (but not the trap).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched this on the eve of this year’s Berlin fest, where C\u00f4t\u00e9 has a new film premiering. I’ve seen his Bestiaire but thought I’d check out one of his fictional features as part of the Festifest Quest. Was enjoying this on the level of a Sundancey relationship drama about interesting characters. The movie’s good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,391,1719],"class_list":["post-10889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-canada","tag-denis-cote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10907,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889\/revisions\/10907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}