The Successor

"Too crazy to be true (...) Legrand once again proves himself to be a solid director of actors and a sturdy technician. How things happen is much less of a problem than what happens, and also why they happen" 

"An unexpectedly aggressive assault on viewer nerves given its intelligent, near-esoteric reach. (Themes here range back to Oedipal times.) Highly effective both as a claustropobic thriller" 

"Brutal yet elegant film" 

"Cold, Controlled French Thriller (...) Xavier Legrand follows up his debut with what seems like a conventional genre picture, though its implications about cycles of violence prove even more unsettling. (...) “The Successor” is guaranteed to provoke debate"