‘Meteors’ Review: A Town Without Pity Takes its Toll on Friendship in a Listless French Melodrama

‘Meteors’ Review: A Town Without Pity Takes its Toll on Friendship in a Listless French Melodrama

There is a term for the sparsely populated swath of France that extends southwest from the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg to the Pyrenees: the “empty diagonal” (“diagonale du vide“). Evocative of rural flight and small-town decline, the phrase was the title of French director Hubert Charuel’s 2011 short film, set in his native Saint-Dizier […]