High Tension: Deville & Dufeys Suffer the Children in Jittery Debut
Tossing us right into the hellfire of an acutely agonizing situation, Charlotte Deville and Arnaud Dufeys’ directorial debut On vous croit (We believe you) is churning potboiler of emotional duress. From the opening frame to the final credits, it’s a film meant to keep the audience on edge, and purposefully at odds with the cheerful resonance of its title, and what such a statement comes to mean for a Belgian mother locked in a grueling custody battle for her two children. Aggravating but ultimately empathetic, it’s set almost entirely within the sterile confines of a judge’s office, which ultimately feels like a structured reprieve whenever we’re forced to stray outside these rigid confines, when its characters are otherwise in the final, collective throes of a nervous breakdown.… Read the rest
