Le Successeur

"Too crazy to be true (...) Legrand once again proves himself to be a solid director of actors and a sturdy technician. How things happen is much less of a problem than what happens, and also why they happen" 

"Cold, Controlled French Thriller (...) Xavier Legrand follows up his debut with what seems like a conventional genre picture, though its implications about cycles of violence prove even more unsettling. (...) “The Successor” is guaranteed to provoke debate" 

"An unexpectedly aggressive assault on viewer nerves given its intelligent, near-esoteric reach. (Themes here range back to Oedipal times.) Highly effective both as a claustropobic thriller" 

"Brutal yet elegant film"