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“Polisse” Review

This is one of the most frustrating movies I can recall seeing. Everything about it should be terrible, and at times it is really bad. Yet most of the movie is compelling in spite of itself. It’s almost worth a recommendation just to see how messy it is. Some of the formless style steers the film toward gripping drama, other times the lack of structure will create a moment of pure idiocy. It’s not a see-saw of good and bad rather an amorphous blob pop-marked with one too many unseemly blemishes. Continue reading