2025 · drama
The Quiet Son
Directed by Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin1h 58m2025
Pierre, a devoted father in his 50s, raises his two sons alone. When Louis, the youngest, leaves home to attend the Sorbonne in Paris, Fus, slightly older and not as successful academically, becomes more and more secretive. Driven by a fascination for violence, he gets entangled in far-right extremist groups, at the very opposite of his father’s values. Between them, there is love and hate, until tragedy happens.
Our read: The Quiet Son (2025) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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