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Strayed
Wellspring Media

Strayed reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 70 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.7 out of 10
based on 27 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Clémence Meyer, Jean Fornerod, Samuel Labarthe, Eric Kreikenmayer, and Nicholas Mead

As the German army storms through Paris in June, 1940, a woman flees the city with her two children, heading south.


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Foreign  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Gilles Taurand
André Téchiné
Gilles Perrault (novel)
 
DIRECTED BY: André Téchiné  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: November 16, 2004 
Video: November 16, 2004 
Theatrical: May 14, 2004 
RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: France / UK  
LANGUAGE(S): French (with English subtitles) 

Original title "Les Égarés"; Nominated, Golden Palm, 2003 Cannes Film Festival

What The Critics Said

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100
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Once in a great while a film seems right in every detail. Andre Techine's Strayed ("Les Egares") is such a film.
91
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
André Téchiné's beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed drama Strayed has less to do with the events and moral choices of the era that continue to shape French identity than with the timeless psychological effects of finding oneself unmoored from the familiar.
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90
Village Voice Dennis Lim
As with Téchiné's best work, Strayed is a peculiar, lingering blend of robustness and delicacy--a movie with hardly a single wasted frame, incongruous word, or false gesture.
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90
Variety David Stratton
A taut, suspenseful, linear approach, and a trio of excellent performances.
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90
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
What makes this film special, as in his other films, is the getting there. Téchiné is the master of subtle shifts in mood, an acute delineator of psychological interplay, and therefore demands the utmost of his actors.
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80
The New York Times Stephen Holden
It begins with a montage of devastating black-and-white news clips interwoven with flashes of the flight of a terrified young widow and her two children. After that, the movie softens somewhat, but it never succumbs to sentimentality.
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80
New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Téchiné gets deep inside the dread and exhilaration of people who have lost their bearings so suddenly they don't even have the luxury of grief.
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80
Time Richard Schickel
Elegant and understated.
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80
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Strayed has the strange clarity of a fable. It strips everything away until only instincts and emotions are left.
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75
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Hardship and suffering don't drive this movie so much as a romantic's gloss on the two.
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75
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
War may set the stage for Strayed, but the film's real focus is something much quieter and internal: People caught in the throes of a transformation that is not of their making and struggling to adapt.
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75
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Begins and ends with facts of war, but it is really a film about the nature of male and female, about middle-class values and those who cannot afford them, about how helpless we can be when the net of society is broken.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
A disturbing drama about the dehumanizing and humiliating effects of war.
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75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The story is dramatic and Béart gives one of her best performances, even if Téchiné's style has its usual sense of distance.
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75
Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
Techine's terrifying setup quickly gives way to a slower and less explicit suspense, in which every step and spoken word is heavy with intrigue.
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75
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Béart, too beautiful for words, brings a complex swirl of emotions, elegantly restrained and marked with pain, to this finely wrought work.
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70
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
French director Andre Techine (Alice and Martin) powerfully re-creates the mass exodus from the city and draws a fine performance from Beart as a woman struggling to shield her children from her own fear and confusion. Unfortunately the last act goes off the rails.
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70
The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Téchiné has a reputation in France as an especially empathic director of women--Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche among them--and he has understood this Odile very well.
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70
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Strayed moves forward with an absorbing ruthlessness, yet without sacrificing those tiny incidental details that lend it singularity and power.
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70
TV Guide Ken Fox
Long expert at unforgettable characterizations, Techine turns his talents toward creating an evocative sense of time and mood.
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70
Salon.com Charles Taylor
It's an impressive, intelligent, compact piece of filmmaking...But Téchiné might be one of those directors whose work is best appreciated by critics and other filmmakers.
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63
New York Post V.A. Musetto
The result is, alas, competent but unexceptional.
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50
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Beautifully shot, and graced with another winning performance from the lovely Beart, Strayed nevertheless fails because the relationship between Odile and Yvan never makes us feel the sexual passion it implies.
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50
Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
The setup's a bit reminiscent of "The English Patient" -- except that Beart's much easier on the eyes and ears than Ralph Fiennes is -- but Strayed is even slower moving, if you can believe it.
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50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Ostensibly a love story, the film is also handicapped by Téchiné's strong gay sensibility and clear lack of romantic interest in his characters.
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40
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
There's no emotional weight to either character, or to this far-from-dangerous liaison. All you can do is watch the slight story sputter, and try to figure out whether Bèart's formidable lips were made by God or man.
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30
Washington Post Desson Thomson
A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jack F. gave it an 8:
Since it premiered at Cannes last year "Strayed" has been charged with being too classic and academic by many critics but I think it is deceptively so. A sometimes very subtle editing and the very effective use of brief moments in slow motion betray that classicism that, yes, when all is said and done saps the movie's potential to be a greater film, but there's much more to it than at first meets the eye. I don't always agree with Roger Ebert but I think this time he got it right: Strayed is a movie about those who can afford middle-class values and those who can't. But I think it is not simply a love story or a period movie, it's definitely a war movie, the plot can only take place during wartime: someone like Yvan can only aspire to be a family bread-winner when the rule of law and order is torn to shreds and it's the war that has made Odile into a very coveted widow. The fact that Yvan's character is accompanied by a pervading sense of danger and mystery is one of the strengths of the movie. The suspense it builds is psychological as much as it is related to class. We, like Odile, and perhaps like her, equally selfish and terrified by our own misery, only get to really Know Yvan at the very ending, that's when the character's missing element is revealed, when Yvan is complete. I'll keep reading Ebert, from time to time this old man can be truly insightful.

Gabrielle gave it an 8:
Competently rendered performances from Béart and her younger co-stars make France's second WWII-era film of the season (after Rappeneau's equally effective "Bon voyage") a winner. Téchiné captures just the right amount of emotional truth without succumbing to the heavy-handed politicizing that often befalls films of this genre.

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