Custody

This french film is a tight look at a divorce, as the unreconciled father and mother share custody arrangements with the son of the marriage (the daughter is already old enough to make her own decisions, and has decided she wants nothing to do with dad). The tension underlying the meetings between father and son builds with the small and bigger lies that generate between them as the boy, too young to really be doing this, tries to keep peace between his parents. And there's an enthralling last 15 minutes as everything boils over in a sequence that had me utterly engrossed. It's done in a way that feels unembelished (no background music beyond where music has a source within the scene, no flashy camera work), and draws us into a story that proves as stark as it is intriguing. Definitely something to catch.