Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn a world drowning in content, independent films give jaded audiences a fresh way to look at the world.
Nothing new there. But lately, some of these movies have really gone off the deep end.In “Lamb,” an Icelandic couple discovers an adorable sheep-baby and attempts to raise it as their own.
In “Titane,” a car-show dancer murders a would-be rapist, then turns around and has sex with a tricked-out Cadillac. In “The Green Knight,” a reckless Arthurian hero hacks down a human tree, knowing full well it will cost him his head.Unconventional as these movies may be, they’re finding an audience today that I would not have thought possible a decade or so ago.
Not a huge audience, mind you, but a small yet dedicated segment of the public that’s fed up with formula, hungry for movies with the capacity to surprise, perhaps even to shock.
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