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‘Social Hygiene’ Review: An Enjoyable and Exasperating Sliver of COVID-Era Creativity
Jessica Kiang Veering between profundity, faux profundity and a faintly discernible mockery of those who might mistake one for the other, Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté administers a thimbleful of COVID-era potion with “Social Hygiene,” which brought him the best director prize in the Berlinale Encounters sidebar (shared with Ramon and Silvan Zürcher for “The Girl and the Spider”). The film largely amounts to stagey scenes of two people bellowing petty philosophies at each other across a blustery meadow.
