One of the motivations behind month-to-month coverage of Netflix original films is to salvage the standouts that the studio’s, shall we say, “selectively focused” promotion team can let fall through the cracks. To wit: This month, the service quietly added a new film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the guy who directed one of the highest-grossing non-English-language releases in American box-office history. The loopy Bigbug is February’s standout, backed up by a kitchen-sink German horror show, a fetish-play rom-com in from South Korea, and a Polish character study with better-than-average acting and writing. That, and Tall Girl 2, in which there are two tall girls. Much to pore over as singletons and couples alike stave off the post-Valentine’s blues; read on:
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