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Depressive Cop
Depressive Cop
6.1
/10
835 Ratings

DEPRESSIVE COP

Directed by Bertrand Mandico
France, 2016
Short, Drama, Avant-Garde, Crime, Fantasy

Synopsis

On a Scottish island, a depressive police investigates the disappearance of a girl. The mournful mother is responsible for the disappearance of the inhabitants of the island.

Synopsis

On a Scottish island, a depressive police investigates the disappearance of a girl. The mournful mother is responsible for the disappearance of the inhabitants of the island.

Our take

The most recent film in our Bertrand Mandico retrospective, Depressive Cop captures, in cool low-contrast black-and-white film stock, and in pathetic fallacy, the strange psychology of the wild Scottish island on which it is set. Perplexing and stylish, albeit gruesomely so.