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9.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 94 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 89 out of 94
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 94
  3. Negative: 5 out of 94

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  1. UghiY.
    Jul 10, 2005
    10
    I liked the film. Best I've seen in a while. Nothing special. But, I thought Louis Garrel was amazing. Good cinematography. A little sexual but you know. One of the best French films in a while. The NC-17 rating was so cool!
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  2. PrudenceK.
    Jul 10, 2005
    10
    Louis Garrel and Isabelle Huppert both deserve Oscar for their chilling performances! Incredible film. The best film I've ever seen of all time.
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  3. Rob
    Nov 5, 2005
    6
    This movie fails on almost every level except for 2 heavily important ones: the acting, and the depiction of how one wreckles soul can destroy the lives and steal the innocence of everybody she comes into contact with.
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  4. OscarP.
    May 16, 2005
    2
    One of the worst french films i have seen in the cinema. I. Huppert is the best of this.
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  5. Mandy
    May 28, 2005
    1
    AWFUL. sick, perverse. i walks out after an hour and a half and i'm shocked that i stayed that long. the plot was weak, so the gratuitous, violent, sexual scenes grew to be boring. yes, they were disturbing, but there was no plot to back them.
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  6. MoiA.
    Jun 15, 2005
    0
    All I can say is......YUCK!!!!!
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Metascore

Generally unfavorable - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 19
  2. Negative: 7 out of 19
  1. So clinically detached it borders on absurd.
  2. Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    50
    Director Christophe Honore's respectable, tightly coiled, but ultimately unrewarding adaptation of Georges Bataille's posthumous novel.
  3. 50
    Can't transcend its own suffocating milieu.