The film’s depiction of heroin use, a mirage of dancing lighter flames, brown powders, and tin foil, is vivid and frequent. And when Remy accepts his first hit from Nathalie (Marie-Josse Croze), the attractive, young junkie daughter of a past mistress, her assurance that “the first high is always the best” is tinged with both the promise of relief from pain and the rebel thrill of forbidden fruit…
SENSUAL SOCIALIST: REMY GIRARD ON “BARBARIAN INVASIONS”
By | January 2004
