Côté has always had a skill for subverting expectations and here he manages to slide his film from black comedy to outright horror with the smoothness of a snake.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Côté has always had a skill for subverting expectations and here he manages to slide his film from black comedy to outright horror with the smoothness of a snake.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Côté has often played with artifice, particularly in his documentaries, and here he pushes things to experimental extremes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Côté has often played with artifice, particularly in his documentaries, and here he pushes things to experimental extremes.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

By simply observing the men as they move around, the film avoids over-interpretation, working hard to leave space for each person watching to find their own narrative as to why each man might have chosen this sport.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

By simply observing the men as they move around, the film avoids over-interpretation, working hard to leave space for each person watching to find their own narrative as to why each man might have chosen this sport.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

In what is probably Côté's most straightforwardly observational film to date, the fictions come baked in.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

In what is probably Côté's most straightforwardly observational film to date, the fictions come baked in.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Côté deliberately refuses to manufacture a conclusion, leaving it to us to make of it what we will.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Côté deliberately refuses to manufacture a conclusion, leaving it to us to make of it what we will.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The bleak chill of the Quebecois winter seeps into the very bones of Denis Côté's latest film, giving a sense of aching longing to the action.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The bleak chill of the Quebecois winter seeps into the very bones of Denis Côté's latest film, giving a sense of aching longing to the action.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a challenging and rewarding piece that reflects your own thoughts as much as those of the filmmaker.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

This is a challenging and rewarding piece that reflects your own thoughts as much as those of the filmmaker.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The black and white film perfectly evokes the sense of a place caught in aspic.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The black and white film perfectly evokes the sense of a place caught in aspic.

~ Amber Wilkinson -