CUSTODY

OUT 13 april

An outstanding debut feature by French writer-director Xavier Legrand, this slow-burning drama begins with a judge granting shared custody of 12-year-old Julien (Thomas Gioria) to divorced parents Myriam (Léa Drucker) and Antoine (Denis Ménochet). But mother and son remain terrified of Antoine’s aggression. In the Dardenne brothers’ naturalistic vein, it expertly builds to a nerveracking climax.