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A Taste of Ink is a shout. A shout of anger and a shout of love. An oedipal movie based on a father-son rivalry that dares to confront its dark side and its comic incongruity. An infatuated love story between a young man and his stepmother. A peek into a different Paris, where the Americanized youth meanders along the outposts of the latest trends. As the alienated twenty-four-year-old protagonist of Morgan Simon’s feisty feature debut admits: “Tattoos used to make you different, now they just make you ordinary”. A Taste of Ink may pepper its ordinary domestic setting with body art and a screeching post-punk soundtrack, but what really stands out is a precise script and fine performances which turn a family drama into a punchy narrative. (Fionnuala Halligan, ScreenDaily)