‘Vincent Must Die’ Review: A Witty, Grimy, Timely Parable for Our Paranoid and Persecuted Times
variety.comJessica Kiang Kathryn Bigelow’s underappreciated “Strange Days” features a line that goes something like “The issue isn’t whether you’re paranoid.
The issue is whether you’re paranoid enough.” Although that film is set in 1999, it’s an aphorism would work equally well in Stéphan Castang‘s fun, violent, high-concept “Vincent Must Die,” as a punchy summation of post-pandemic — rather than pre-millennial — nervousness and malaise.
Who among us has not gazed in dismay at a world that’s not just increasingly bad-tempered, but seems to hold against each one of us some focused, individual grudge?
The times have doubtless always been bad, but they hit (and hit and hit) differently now, like this time, it’s personal. Vincent (a terrific, cow-eyed Karim Leklou) is initially not paranoid enough/at all.
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