Fifth about The Seventh

Full Phil

Full Phil: Quentin Dupieux somehow manages to make an extremely short feature film that feels like it’s extra long. The secret, of course, is to not have an engaging character or situation in sight. The film follows a father and daughter staying in a Paris hotel, aiming to get a re-approach. If only things were that simple: an enormous appetite, a horror B-movie (being generous, it deserves a letter much closer to the end of the alphabet), and an overzealous hotel worker make this film essentially unbearable to watch, as well as, when it’s all said and done, pointless. This is just an empty exercise in making the viewer uncomfortable. The cast, at least, seems committed to this mess: Kristen Stewart, as the daughter, is an ugly eater (which she does with gusto) and little else; Woody Harrelson, as the constantly annoyed and demanding father, is an ugly dresser; Charlotte Le Bon plays the meddling hotel worker. Dupieux himself shoots and edits the film, and while the images are fine, the film feels overlong (probably on purpose, but succeeding at making a bad movie doesn’t magically transform the experience into something good).

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