Director: Frederic Mermoud
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Nathalie Baye, Diane Rouxel
Year: 2016
The understated French drama of the year is Moka, a revenge tale without the revenge. This is a style that we see every season, the quiet, heavy, high-character, low-action, French film that critics are supposed to eat up and convince audiences that they should like too. And sometimes it works, sometimes we relate to you that a foreign film of this genre is exactly that, weighty but wonderful. Moka, I’m afraid, doesn’t fall into that category. It is dramatic, yes, it is familiar, which isn’t always unwelcome, but it lacks the punch needed to make up for the slow speed of its story. Basically, this film is an average …Read the entire review
