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“Depending on the sensitivity and openness of the viewer, it can sometimes be grotesque, or it can be funny,” he adds about a disturbing dinner scene laced with comic relief.

The deportation campaign of undocumented immigrants is about what I expected, although the sickening spectacle they are making of it is even more grotesque than I thought it would be.

It’s grotesque constitutional malpractice for legislators to attack judges trying to determine what the Constitution and the law allow while booing from the cheap seats.

Looking like a normal human being is boring, but being a grotesque version of yourself is a guaranteed way to get people looking.

Jul – who is known for his affectionally grotesque caricatures – was commissioned to give a modern take on the tale, with the book being the latest in a programme of annual gifts to French pre-adolescents.