In the first of a new series, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw stifles his sobs to tell us why he finds the Mathieu Amalric drama so upsetting – and why he’s not afraid to say so
Crying in films is a physical response which does not come in little bursts: like laughs, or cheers, or whoops, or gasps. It leaks out, or more commonly it is choked back. You might cough or clear your throat in a sad film in the same as you might recross your legs in a sexy one. Crying in films happens gradually, then suddenly as the dam is breached, and may be a delayed reaction to an event that happened on screen some minutes before.
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