Cannes. La raison de plus faible.

Mike D'Angelo, writing at Nerve, finds The Right of the Weakest "quite impressive... it's a strange, deliberate riff on a well-worn genre that I'd rather not name, simply because the film plays much better if you don't know in advance what direction it's going to take."

"Consistently engaging," agrees Variety's Lisa Nesselson. "Belgian writer-director-actor Lucas Belvaux (Trilogy) imbues his portrait of an industrial community with the residue of history and the urgency of the dead-end present."

But for Time Out's Dave Calhoun, it's "a distinctly average and clumsy tale of unemployment and crime in Belgium's Liege."

The Hollywood Reporter's Duane Byrge basically agrees: "A misguided blasphemy of Bicycle Thief, downloaded through film-noir affectations, this Competition Entrant is morally specious and narratively nonsensical."

Posted by dwhudson at May 25, 2006 7:29 AM