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Thestandout premieres of the fall festival circuittend to fall into two categories.

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Then there are the ones you didnt see coming.

In fact, Corbet has another movie under his belt:The Childhood of a Leader.

His framing is geometric and painterly, his actors often center-punched, his colors rich and dark.

If you havent seenThe Childhood of a Leaderyet,spoiler alert.

One of the delights of the film is that the pieces dont fit completely until the end.

Early on, we meet a journalist, played by Robert Pattinson, who visits the family in France.

In that way, it seems most in the tradition of Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski.