Just as his debut feature Violet (CFF 2014) examined the traumatic effect a violent incident had on a group, Bas Devos’ follow-up observes the aftershocks experienced by three very different characters as a result of a terrorist attack. Written in the shadow of the Brussels bombings of March 2016, Hellhole is a work of immense subtlety and consideration. Very much a film concerned with what happens in the margins, in the quiet pockets of people’s lives, Hellhole confirms the arrival of a leading light of a new generation of European filmmakers. DOM