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Pharaon De Winter is a police lieutenant who lives with his mother in Bailleul, a working-class town in Northern France. With astonishing and raw sensitivity, Pharaon agonizes over the evil he must confront every day during the course of his work. His latest case is the brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl, a crime so barbarous that Pharaon reels from the madness of it, struggling to grasp... See Full Description
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Art/Foreign and Drama |
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| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 28 min. |
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| Release Date: |
June 14, 2000 NY |
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| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
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| Distributors: |
Winstar Cinema
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$113,495 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
N/A
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24 Frames Per Second,
"...it is a bracing blast of fresh air to see a film that eschews all of this smoke-and-mirror action to focus on real, plausible human characters and at least attempts to be an example of what some of us used to call 'cinema.'" Full Review...
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culturevulture.net,
"By far the most interesting and profound new release of this year - or many another... Dumont is not only a director with interesting things to say (the screenplay is also his), he is a filmmaker powerfully in control of his medium." Full Review...
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E! Online,
(grade: C+) "[Moves] at the speed of escargot..." Full Review...
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Film Journal International,
"...painful to watch..." Full Review...
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