Advanced Search >
Help Me Search

Movies

Weekend Box Office
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
Best / Worst of the Decade

Wide Releases
Now In Theaters

sort by namesort by score

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

Limited Releases
Now In Theaters

sort by namesort by score

67 3 Idiots
47 44 Inch Chest
82 Ajami
71 American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
73 Amreeka
75 Art of the Steal, The
43 Barefoot to Timbuktu
19 Bitch Slap
49 Blood Done Sign My Name
xx Bluebeard
24 Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, The
76 Broken Embraces
52 Celine: Through the Eyes of the World
67 Children of Invention
53 Chloe
68 City Island
64 Cloud 9
65 Coco Before Chanel
84 Cove, The
83 Crazy Heart
21 Crazy on the Outside
51 Creation
xx Daddy Long Legs
81 Damned United, The
57 Defendor
61 Delta
68 Departures
64 District 13: Ultimatum
72 Easier with Practice
xx Eclipse, The
85 Education, An
61 Exploding Girl, The
70 Eyes Wide Open
24 Falling Awake
81 Fish Tank
56 For My Father
52 Formosa Betrayed
xx From Mexico with Love
43 Frozen
xx Ghost Town
77 Ghost Writer, The
69 Girl on the Train, The
75 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The
47 Good Guy, The
76 Greenberg
35 Happy Tears
68 Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess
20 Harlem Aria
76 IMAX: Hubble 3D
11 Killing Jar, The
52 Killing Kasztner
xx Kimjongilia
41 Last New Yorker, The
76 Last Station, The
47 Little Traitor, The
51 Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, The
71 Lourdes
73 Me and Orson Welles
77 Messenger, The
79 Mid-August Lunch
57 Missing Person, The
76 Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, The
80 Mother
50 My Name is Khan
85 Neil Young Trunk Show
49 Nine
67 North Face
64 October Country
67 Off and Running
52 Paranoids, The
40 Phyllis and Harold
49 Pop Star on Ice
49 Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The
74 Prodigal Sons
xx Promised Lands (Re-release)
90 Prophet, A
76 Red Riding Trilogy, The
65 Runaways, The
32 Saint John of Las Vegas
83 Secret of Kells, The
69 September Issue, The
36 Serious Moonlight
57 Severe Clear
63 Shinjuku Incident, The
35 Shutterbug
77 Single Man, A
76 Still Bill
34 Stolen
xx Suicide Girls Must Die!
52 Tales from the Script
74 Terribly Happy
74 That Evening Sun
47 To Die for Tano
19 To Save a Life
63 Toe to Toe
69 Town Called Panic, A
54 Until the Light Takes Us
60 Videocracy
84 Vincere
66 Waiting for Armageddon
45 White on Rice
82 White Ribbon
xx White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights, The
43 Women in Trouble
xx Word is Out
64 Yellow Handkerchief, The
64 Young Victoria, The

Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.

Strayed

EMAILPRINTWellspring Media

Strayed reviews
70
7.7 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 27 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 4 votes
Read user comments
Rate this movie >

Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Foreign  |  Romance

Written by: Gilles Taurand
André Téchiné
Gilles Perrault (novel)

Directed by: André Téchiné

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 14, 2004
DVD: November 16, 2004

Running Time: 95 minutes, Color

Origin: France / UK

Language(s): French (with English subtitles)

Summary

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.

What The Critics Said

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

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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
90

Variety David Stratton

A taut, suspenseful, linear approach, and a trio of excellent performances.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
80

Time Richard Schickel

Elegant and understated.

Read Full Review >
80

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Strayed has the strange clarity of a fable. It strips everything away until only instincts and emotions are left.

Read Full Review >
75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Hardship and suffering don't drive this movie so much as a romantic's gloss on the two.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
75

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

A disturbing drama about the dehumanizing and humiliating effects of war.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
70

TV Guide Ken Fox

Long expert at unforgettable characterizations, Techine turns his talents toward creating an evocative sense of time and mood.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
63

New York Post V.A. Musetto

The result is, alas, competent but unexceptional.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
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.

Read Full Review >
30

Washington Post Desson Thomson

A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving.

Read Full Review >

What Our Users Said

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.

Popular on CBS sites: College Signing Day | March Madness | TV | iPhone | Cell Phones | Video Game Reviews | Free Music

About CBS Interactive | Jobs | Advertise

© 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy (UPDATED) | Terms of Use