“The Locust sees metafictional layer upon metafictional layer folded over a single, confined setting, where family members and crewmembers alike converge to battle for creative control over a filmmaker's personal passion project (and maybe life...?).”
“Francesco Sossai’s Other Cannibals is a work of horror-realism so mired in its characters’ misguided meandering that it becomes something else entirely, a stark black almost-comedy of errors about two outcasts trying desperately to sink their teeth into life itself.”
“…it’s the performances from Close’s young actors Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele that endows Close with the real heartrending power that the film possesses.”