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‘A Place to Heal’ Review: An Intensely Performed French Teen Psych Ward Drama That Shifts Uneasily Between Reality and Fiction
Writer-director Cédric Kahn is perhaps best known outside France for helming tense, extremely bleak thrillers — Red Lights , Roberto Succo and L’Ennui — bathed in both film noir and existential angst.
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Writer-director Cédric Kahn is perhaps best known outside France for helming tense, extremely bleak thrillers — Red Lights , Roberto Succo and L’Ennui — bathed in both film noir and existential angst. But he’s also tried his hand at several other genres, including a supernatural kids flick ( The Plane ), a gritty tale of rehab and religion ( The Prayer ), an engrossing courtroom drama ( The Goldman Case ) and, for his memorable second feature from 1994, a striking coming-of-age story called Too Much Happiness .
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