Irish Film Institute -REVIEW ROUNDUP: MONOS AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD

REVIEW ROUNDUP: MONOS AND BY THE GRACE OF GOD

Two new releases open at the Irish Film Institute on Friday October 25th: Monos and By the Grace of God.

Read on for a selection of reviews or pop in to make up your own mind!

 

BY THE GRACE OF GOD

 

“The performances are excellent, and Ozon maintains a perfect balance between the galloping investigation and a sense of quiet devastation”

4/5

THE IRISH TIMES

 

“That sense of being ripped from the headlines is incorporated into Ozon’s pacy, urgent, meticulously researched drama”

THE IRISH TIMES WEEKLY ROUNDUP

 

“It’s the way this prescient film is handled that makes it such moving and compelling viewing”

4/5

MOVIES.IE

 

“Francois Ozon’s new film is sombre, restrained and painful – inhibited perhaps by its sense of moral seriousness”

3/5

THE GUARDIAN

 

“It’s so talky that reading the fast-moving subtitles takes on a challenge of its own. But this is just a small caveat in a film of such overpowering substance and value”

4/4

OBSERVER

 

MONOS

 

“Monos is one of the year’s most extraordinary films”

SIGHT AND SOUND

 

“There is a driving narrative impulse: tense things happen”

5/5

THE GUARDIAN

 

“Call it a collective character study or a perpetual-war film – Monos takes its cues from a number of well-known influences. But there’s a specific, singular madness that’s completely its own”

4/5

ROLLING STONE

 

“This is a gripping, sometimes hypnotising film in which notions of good and evil are less clear-cut than the urgent desire to stay alive”

SCREEN DAILY

 

“This film is a work of art. There’s no other way to describe it. It looks sublime”

SMALL SCREEN

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