Bastards
Original title: Les salauds · Turkish title: Piçler
“A neo-noir nightmare.”
2013 · 1 h 40 min
Directed by 
Claire Denis
Claire DenisCast
Vincent Lindon 
Chiara Mastroianni Julie Bataille 
Michel Subor
Credits
Written by: Jean-Pol Fargeau
Plot
A sailor returns to avenge his family.
Sinekatalog’s take
Claire Denis's dark, fragmented noir has a sailor returning to avenge his family and uncovering a rotten secret. Cold, hallucinatory and bleak, with Vincent Lindon, it is a grim, difficult film of corruption and horror.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.1 / 10 (4,035 votes)
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