Ingenious, high-concept thriller sees Joel Schumacher back on top of his game

Big, bleak and brilliant

Adaptation of Spike Milligan's cult 1963 novel

There's life in the old Dogme yet

Touching, true saga of wartime Jewish refugees

Oblique polemical melodrama as would-be epic

The inevitable sequel to Shanghai Noon

Everybody's kung fu fighting

OPENS APRIL 11, CERT 15, 77 MINS Damien Odoul's debut feature is a coming-of-age film with a difference. Shot in black and white, full of violent and surreal imagery, it has more in common with the movies of Buñuel and Vigo or Arthur Rimbaud's poetry than with any conventional teen movie. Alienated teenager David (Pierre-Louis Bonnetblanc) lives on a remote French farm with his uncle. The older farm hands decide to get him drunk for the first time.

Wry indie tragicomedy sees idiot safebreakers on the rampage