The Big Picture
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  • Summary: Paul Exben is a handsome and successful thirty-something Parisian corporate lawyer with a beautiful wife, two children, and a glimmering future as a partner in the firm he co-owns with his mentor, Anne. But behind this deceptively perfect bourgeois façade lies a desire for creative fulfillmeent, a restless spirit who despises his conformist life and envies the freedom of his neighbor Greg an uncompromising photojournalist. An unexpected event involving Greg throws Paul’s life into chaos, and he makes a startling decision that pushes him into unknown territory. (MPI Pictures)… Collapse

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Oct 12, 2012
    90
    Paul is not a sociopath like Tom Ripley, and the movie does not convey the same diabolical Hitchcockian sense of being manipulated by a slightly sadistic master puppeteer. As the story sprawls across the screen, it darts from one incident to the next as though it were inventing itself as it goes along.
  2. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Calvin Wilson
    Dec 7, 2012
    75
    The Big Picture ends perhaps a bit too ambiguously, but there's something refreshing about its faith in the moviegoer's intelligence.
  3. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    Dec 13, 2012
    75
    A decent-enough treat for fans of this particular Gallic genre.
  4. Empire
    Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    Oct 10, 2012
    60
    A few plot holes hold back what is otherwise a well cast and compelling picture.

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