Roxane
A struggling chicken farmer with a hidden passion for acting (Guillaume de Tonquédec, What's in a Name?) turns to making YouTube comedy videos - much to his family's chagrin - to get out of debt in this French comedy-drama.
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New Zealand Listener
pressBased on an earlier poultry-powered short, director Mélanie Auffret’s debut feature is a film of scrambled tones with black comedy, bucolic whimsy and social-realism occasionally delivered at a cartoon-ish pace. But its ingredients make for an enjoyably cheesy soufflé, for all that.
Stuff
pressAt once an interesting companion piece to that fabulous recent Kiwi rural drama Bellbird and a reminder that someone really should release Morgan Spurlock's excellent US "big chicken" expose Super Size Me 2 in this country, Roxane is not fowl, nor mere poultry entertainment.
New Zealand Listener
pressBased on an earlier poultry-powered short, director Mélanie Auffret’s debut feature is a film of scrambled tones with black comedy, bucolic whimsy and social-realism occasionally delivered at a cartoon-ish pace. But its ingredients make for an enjoyably cheesy soufflé, for all that.
Stuff
pressAt once an interesting companion piece to that fabulous recent Kiwi rural drama Bellbird and a reminder that someone really should release Morgan Spurlock's excellent US "big chicken" expose Super Size Me 2 in this country, Roxane is not fowl, nor mere poultry entertainment.
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