Chevalier

Men! We're awful, aren't we?

The film is impeccably shot - and composer Marilena Orfanou's electronic score vividly suggests a ticking testosterone time bomb. On your mark. Get set. Go see it.

Tsangari gives us an entertaining catalog of the ways males in packs jockey for position, mainly a comic spectacle, but not without moments of menace.

Consider it the Decathlon of Dude Bros

Scene by scene, it builds a vision of group dynamics as calm, violent and finally unyielding as the sea.

"Chavlier" is a time bomb of a film, that doesn't really hit you until the countdown timer runs out as the credits roll.

It has a good deal to say about men from the perspective of a woman and it's never less than intriguing as these rather foolish characters challenge one another.

One is stuck with these unlikeable characters for 105 minutes, while they do very little to shock, to make the viewer laugh or to truly engage.

Tsangari and her co-writer, Efthymis Filippou, take a quietly amusing view of the men's one-upmanship, and the deft camerawork creates a vibrant style amid the film's confined [setting].

Tsangari's female perspective shines a light on the intrinsic issues with masculinity in our society. In an absolutely hilarious way, of course.

At once savage and insightful.