Click here to copy URL

Moka

2016

Frédéric Mermoud

Nathalie Baye, Emmanuelle Devos, Manuela Biedermann, David Clavel ...

5.8

124

Drama Escaping from the clinic above Lausanne where she has been confined, Diane Kramer is driven by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha-coloured car who turned her life upside-down. Taking with her a few possessions, a bit of money and a weapon, she heads for Evian.

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Emmanuelle Devos brings complexity to this sleek, Chabrol-like story of a mother's revenge mission (...) Mostly content for his actors to calibrate the tension between them, Mermoud’s directorial intrusion is confidently minimal."
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"A classy and classical psychological thriller (...) The film doesn’t reinvent the genre but knows how to use its codes to its advantage"
		Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Fascinating in the way it explores the inner lives of these two women, 'Moka' is never quite as tense or compelling on the level of a thriller"
		Chuck Bowen Slant	"Unfortunately, 'Moka' is staged with a sense of observational detachment that keeps it proficiently yet un-memorably humming along in first gear (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The movie’s climax has sufficient twists and turns for a conventional payoff (...) [It] is ultimately more concerned with the genuinely tragic dimensions of the story than its suspense angles."
		Seattle Times	"'Moka' is a lean, taut dramatic thriller that continually offers delicate surprises as it shifts and evolves, building toward an unexpected yet wholly satisfying conclusion (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Melissa Anderson Village Voice	"Though it’s a phlegmatic, sometimes stumbling thriller, 'Moka' (...) still has its share of gripping suspense (...) [It] becomes cluttered and somewhat incoherent"

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.