Friday, June 26, 2015

Hippocrates review – oddly bloodless French hospital drama

While UK clinicians will recognise the shonky equipment and form-filling, Thomas Lilti’s film is also suffering from a lack of excitement

This oddly bloodless social-realist exercise finds French writer-director Thomas Lilti striving to redefine doctors as distinct from their superheroic small-screen equivalents; the corridors patrolled by boyish intern Thomas (Vincent Lacoste) house only report-fudging, short-staffing and shonky equipment.

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