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Simon Killer (18)

Simon Killer (18)

Drama

A recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.


The critical consensus

Simon Killer eschews easy answers and obvious characterisation and it's all the more impressive because of it.

****(*)Emma Simmonds, The List, 04/04/2013

Black-veined and dark-hearted, this is another persuasive character study from Campos.

***(*)(*)Simon Crook, Empire Online, 08/04/2013

Simon is both a figure of fascination and someone from whom you just want to recoil, which makes this a tough, provocative watch, but one that has a lasting impact.

****(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 11/04/2013

Even the endgame, where Simon seems to have earned his epithet, is fluffed.

**(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 11/04/2013

Producer Sean Durkin is part of the brain trust behind the critical hit Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Simon Killer shares that film's high points and pitfalls. It's just as beautiful and spooky, but it's also a bit dank, too studiously serious to maintain its thrills.

***(*)(*)Henry Barnes, The Guardian, 11/04/2013

There is an angry undercurrent to Simon's sadness, a danger in the lies he tells, delusion in the image he projects. Thoughtful direction elevates the grimy subject matter and explicit sex.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 12/04/2013

With Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin), Afterschool and this fascinating examination of masculinity and madness, Borderline Films (the team of Campos, Durkin and Josh Mond) have created a dark, dystopic trilogy about malcontent American youth. Kind of ironic, really, as this trio of filmmakers are among the brightest young talents on the American indie scene.

****(*)Jamie Dunn, The Skinny, 10/04/2013

Aside from some brilliant flourishes, this is a fairly conventional tale of a myopic male sociopath.

David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 11/04/2013

In this lurid erotic thriller, a sad and extremely dislikable US graduate takes a journey to the end of the night in Paris, survives, and is ready to lie about the experience. Unpleasant, but not negligible.

Philip French, The Observer, 14/04/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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