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Custody (Jusqu'à la garde) 2017
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this tense family drama that will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats.
1976, Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, France
September 26, 2018
By the end, it has achieved momentous power ... Meticulously constructed, building with painfully specific intent ... A spectacular debut.September 14, 2018
The film maintains an almost unbearable level of tension throughout and at times makes uncomfortable viewing, as any movie about domestic violence should.July 10, 2018
"Custody" can be difficult, even wrenching to watch, but it always plays fair with the audience, and the experience, worth every minute expended, is impossible to forget.September 06, 2018
Custody is intensely riveting.September 26, 2018
First-time filmmaker Xavier Legrand based this harrowing chronicle on extensive interviews with those on the frontlines of domestic abuse, and he communicates his findings with great sensitivity and withering insight.September 08, 2018
A fastidious family drama with a social realist power.July 26, 2018
Legrand in his feature debut shows laudable technical ability and discipline.September 21, 2018
The events that unfold in this brilliant and troubling movie are all too real.July 07, 2018
We've all seen these sorts of domestic bogeymen before in any number of Lifetime movies. But rarely are they presented with the matter-of-fact naturalism that Legrand brings to his Venice Silver Lion winner.July 20, 2018
As in all good movies of this kind, the ordeal of the children is not skimped. They bear the brunt, and the legacy, of the anguish.August 09, 2018
This bleak and harsh divorce drama is a riveting portrait of a family in crisis, an emotionally brutal story that runs unceasingly from deeply unhappy to potentially fatal.July 16, 2018
Legrand... seems precociously adept at turning the screws of suspense...