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Custody (Jusqu'à la garde) 2017
In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody to her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers abused. Taken as a hostage between his parents, Julien Besson will do everything to prevent the worst from happening.
January 23, 1972 in Caen, Calvados, France
September 21, 2018
The events that unfold in this brilliant and troubling movie are all too real.
September 06, 2018
Custody is intensely riveting.
September 08, 2018
A fastidious family drama with a social realist power.
September 26, 2018
First-time filmmaker Xavier Legrand based this harrowing chronicle on extensive interviews with those on the frontlines of domestic abuse, and he communicates his findings with great sensitivity and withering insight.
September 14, 2018
The film maintains an almost unbearable level of tension throughout and at times makes uncomfortable viewing, as any movie about domestic violence should.
July 16, 2018
Legrand... seems precociously adept at turning the screws of suspense...
September 26, 2018
By the end, it has achieved momentous power ... Meticulously constructed, building with painfully specific intent ... A spectacular debut.
August 09, 2018
This bleak and harsh divorce drama is a riveting portrait of a family in crisis, an emotionally brutal story that runs unceasingly from deeply unhappy to potentially fatal.
July 10, 2018
"Custody" can be difficult, even wrenching to watch, but it always plays fair with the audience, and the experience, worth every minute expended, is impossible to forget.
July 07, 2018
We've all seen these sorts of domestic bogeymen before in any number of Lifetime movies. But rarely are they presented with the matter-of-fact naturalism that Legrand brings to his Venice Silver Lion winner.
July 20, 2018
As in all good movies of this kind, the ordeal of the children is not skimped. They bear the brunt, and the legacy, of the anguish.
July 26, 2018
Legrand in his feature debut shows laudable technical ability and discipline.

