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Who Killed Bambi?

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Who Killed Bambi? reviews
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9.5 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 8 critic reviews
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Based on 2 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Foreign  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Vincent Dietschy
Gilles Marchand

Directed by: Gilles Marchand

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 12, 2004
DVD: April 5, 2005

Running Time: 126 minutes, Color

Origin: France

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Sophie Quinton, Laurent Lucas, Catherine Jacob, Yasmine Belmadi, Michèle Moretti, Valérie Donzelli, Jean-Claude Jay, and Aladin Reibel

From the writer of "Human Resources" and "With a Friend Like Harry," this thriller involves a French nursing student and a mysterious doctor.

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...

75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Marchand capably builds suspense, thanks to a twisty script and nervy performances by Lucas and Quinton.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Seizes on a primal fear and flogs it for two hours.

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60

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The truly creepy thing is that there's no bizarre, COMA-like conspiracy behind the malfeasance, just an awful betrayal of trust -- the kind of thing that sends an icy, paranoid chill through the blood just as the anesthetic takes hold.

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50

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

A long and uneventful snooze.

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50

Village Voice David Ng

Too vague in its cat-and-mouse play to succeed as a psychological thriller, Who Killed Bambi? fares better as a visual exercise in white-on-whiteness.

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40

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Watching it is like a slow injection of a numbing anesthetic. It may send a chill to your heart, but along with it goes a warning signal to your brain not to believe a word of this hooey.

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40

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Effectively creates a menacing atmosphere within the gleaming white halls of the hospital in which it is set, but its story line and characterizations lack the sufficient originality to lift the film above its many better predecessors.

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30

Variety Todd McCarthy

Delivers only annoyance and impatience.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Chris H. gave it a9:
This film deliberately fails to color within genre boundaries, a fact that resulted in the confused appraisals of many of the critics listed above. Even those critics who applauded the film judged it as a thriller, when in fact it is a dead-on social, political and philosophical allegory that is rendered in a hauntingly beautiful visual style. The lifeworld/hospital in which Dr. Phillippe and Isabelle make their limited and predetermined moves is a frightening reflection of the spectacular and fragmented media universe we all inhabit, and in which our dreams more often decay than flower. This is one of the best and least understood films in recent memory.

Ksenia S. gave it a10:
Haunting and enigmatic thriler, based on the marvellous acting from its two leads as well as awesomely build atmosphere and style. Worth of rewatching.

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