Rotten
Du Welz has definite visual-dramatic talent. (Calvaire was a Cannes festival pick.) But, like Norman Bates' car, he need to get pulled out of the swamp.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Calvaire
Some people would kill for company.
2005 · 1h 28m · Not Rated
Horror
Directed by
Fabrice Du Welz
Overview
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège when his van breaks down. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog then leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Fresh
What sells this movie is the realistic attention to detail and the bravura direction of Fabrice Du Welz, who draws a gut-wrenching performance from Lucas.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
By the time it reaches its final act, the film rivals its American counterparts in intensity if not quite in explicit violence.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
Director-co-writer Fabrice du Welz has taken a cliched premise and infused it with a stylish perversity that should have horror fans squealing with delight.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Rotten
Director Fabrice Du Welz doesn't reinvent the backwoods-freakshow formula, but there is something undeniably entertaining about violent psychos who are also committed art lovers.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
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