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  • Summary: An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisonniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past")

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    80
    This film represents a perfect match of filmmaker and material. Akerman's fondness for long, static takes and circular, recurring dialogue perfectly suits the maddening repetitions that set the tone of Proust's darkest work.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    Akerman uses simple long shots and beautiful composition to give the film a smooth, fluid look. She is assisted by understated but convincing acting, especially by Testud, who is also on New York screens in "Murderous Maids."
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    50
    An elegant but empty and frustrating meditation on desire, obsession, love and possession, The Captive intellectualizes those subjects almost beyond the level of art-film parody.

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