With Toronto Star‘s Pete Howell, The Hollywood Reporter‘s David Rooney and MCN’s David Poland singing praises thus far, it looks like Thomas Vinterberg‘s The Hunt (showing at 11:30 this morning) is the one to see and perhsps stand by. Maybe.
Hold Up: It’s 8:17 am in the Grand Palais, waiting on Michael Haneke‘s Amour, and First Showing.net’s Alex Billington just told me he “hated” The Hunt. And the guy sitting next to him said “it should have played in the market.”
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