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Innocence
Leisure Time Features / Home Vision Entertainment
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Zoé Auclair,
Laisson Lalieux,
Astrid Homme,
Lea Bridarolli,
Ana Palomo-Diaz, Bérangère Haubruge,
Olga Peytavi-Müller,
Marion Cotillard,
and
Hélène de Fougerolles
In this cryptic story, a group of young girls are sequestered in a woodsy community where they are trained for ambiguous future roles.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
|
Mystery
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: October 21, 2005
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
117 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Belgium / France / UK |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Hadzihalilovic succeeds brilliantly at crafting a meaningful enigma that somehow grasps the essence of adolescence, but only grows more mysterious with each revelation.

100
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
One of the oddest, most perplexing -- and delightful -- films to come along this year. And last year, too.

100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Confronts the line between the celebration and the exploitation of innocence with an uneasy tension that is discomforting at best.

90
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Innocence is not merely the year's best first film, but one of the great statements on the politics of being 'tween.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
This is the weirdest film I've seen all year, or at least the weirdest good film. It's also among the most powerful.

80
Variety
Dennis Harvey
This genuine curio maintains its mystery to the end.

80
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The line between cinematic art and exploitation has rarely seemed finer and nervier, at least in recent memory, than in the French film Innocence.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
A visually lush and eerily enigmatic parable of female sexuality, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's ominous fairy tale raises questions you'll be wondering about for days.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
An unashamed art picture, the kind of film where extreme aestheticism mixes with nightmare dread, where the story resembles a bad dream and where Freudian symbols cluster around the events like a swarm of insects. It's a very pretty film, but it's also lean, enigmatic and so obscure.

70
Chicago Reader
Ronnie Scheib
Hadzihalilovic, the wife of cinematic agent provocateur Gaspar Noé and his sometime collaborator, has created a work of limpid beauty and eerie menace that some undoubtedly will dismiss as kiddie porn.

70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The Oxford English Dictionary says that an allegory is "an extended or continued metaphor." And to think that this definition was coined when a French film called Innocence was still very far in the future! But how aptly this film proves the point.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Sura Wood
Sustains a pervasive feeling of anxiety and suspense, despite an absence of dramatic conflict or resolution.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
The more overtly allegorical Innocence becomes, the duller it gets.


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