A self-taught director best known in France for his work as a stage actor, Legrand takes an everyday case of domestic violence an elevates it to riveting family drama in “ Custody.” The movie ...

I don’t think I’ve seen a better movie about domestic abuse than Xavier Legrand’s taut thriller, “Custody.” It’s brutal in content and equally brutal to watch. But it gets to you in unexpected ways in ...

I don’t think I’ve seen a better movie about domestic abuse than Xavier Legrand’s taut thriller, “Custody.” It’s brutal in content and equally brutal to watch. But it gets to you in ...

In the custody hearing that opens the film, Miriam (Léa Drucker) and her ex-husband, Antoine (Denis Ménochet), flanked by their lawyers, square off before a judge.