“The Swarm” (** out of four) was a turgid melodrama about a feisty single mother (Suliane Brahim) who is determined to save her family farm from bankruptcy and begins a business of breeding and cultivating edible grasshoppers but she begins to grow an increasingly compulsive and self-destructive obsession with them while ignoring the plights and problems of her children (Marie Narbonne and Raphael Romand). Holds you in its grip thanks to Brahim’s strong performance but story is bizarre to say the least and never very compelling or moving. At least it’s better than the Godawful 1978 Michael Caine thriller of the same name.