If you\u2019ve heard anything about Xavier Legrand\u2019s Custody<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 admittedly, it\u2019s possible you haven\u2019t \u2014 it\u2019s likely writer\/director Xavier Legrand’s elevator pitch that his film \u201cstarts like Kramer vs. Kramer<\/i> and ends like The Shining<\/i>.\u201d The logline can be taken quite literally, as the film starts with an extended courtroom scene between estranged spouses and ends with the unhinged husband banging down the door separating him from his frightened family. But such a gear shift over the course of 90 minutes never feels abrupt or jarring, in part because Legrand shows the rapid onset of terror stemming from domestic abuse. Quickly but meticulously, he depicts how one violent man sends shockwaves through a family, shaking both his wife and their children to their very core. When coupled with a world outside the home where survivors of abuse are often made to feel responsible for their own fate, Custody<\/i> makes for a drama-cum-thriller so claustrophobic that it could truly suffocate someone. You\u2019ll be relieved once the camera finally pulls away from the family and begins to exit their story \u2014 but ultimately glad you stared directly into the dark heart of a major societal ill.<\/span><\/p>\n If you\u2019ve heard anything about Xavier Legrand\u2019s Custody\u00a0\u2014 admittedly, it\u2019s possible you haven\u2019t \u2014 it\u2019s likely writer\/director Xavier Legrand’s elevator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":10895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,1399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-looking-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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