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‘Meteors’ Review: A Town Without Pity Takes its Toll on Friendship in a Listless French Melodrama
"Meteors," Hubert Charuel's follow-up to 2017's "Bloody Milk" is a despondent portrait of dashed hopes and dead ends in a declining town.
A briefly buzzy beginning during a rowdy boys’ night at the bowling alley introduces us to Mika (Paul Kircher), Daniel (Idir Azougli) and Tony (Salif Cissé), three childhood friends now in their mid-to-late twenties continuing slacker lifestyles and drunken bonding rituals that apparently haven’t changed much since their teens. Daniel is another story, full of drunkenly conceived, hare-brained, get-rich-quick schemes of dodgy legality, the dumbest of which — the spontaneous kidnapping of a neighbor’s pedigree Maine Coon cat — lands both him and reluctant getaway driver Mika in trouble with the local authorities. During the fallout from this inane episode, which like the duo’s bizarre scheme of moving to Madagascar to look after street dogs Charuel plays straight and flat despite the potential for a touch of zany, Coen-Brothers energy, it is further discovered that Daniel is in such a state of advanced alcoholism that his liver is on the verge of collapse.
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