Have you ever gotten into the New French Extremity (NFE) movement from the early 2000s? I remember watching High Tension when it came out in 2003, and later Martyrs when I was doing a movie review ...

New French Extremity is a term coined by Artform critic James Quandt to describe a number of very transgressive French films that were made around the turn of the 21st Century.

Released alongside disgusting titles such as High Tension and Irreversible, it became known as part of the New French Extremity movement. So you know it’s going to be an unrelenting and ...

High Tension is propulsive from the get, an urgent repudiation of contemporary culture, the slow yet steady decline of not only the French government but the world writ large post 9/11. Of course ...

With that approach in mind, Hibbard plans for each year to focus on a theme based on either a country, region, or specific film movement. To kick things off, this year’s opening and closing night ...