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The Woman in the Fifth
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- Starring: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas
- Summary: Struggling American writer Tom Ricks travels to Paris to be reunited with his estranged wife and daughter but soon finds himself embroiled in the city's seedy underside and seduced by a mysterious woman who may not be everything she appears to be...(Film4)
- Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
- Genre(s): Thriller
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Positive: 8 out of 18
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Mixed: 8 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
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88Tom has enlisted our identification and sympathy, but he seems hopelessly isolated within his own bubble of despair. How much that happens is in his mind?
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Jun 21, 201280Unlike most literary adaptations this one actually conveys the pleasure of fiction, lingering suggestively on small details of character and place. The movie casts such a seductive air of mystery that the resolution feels anticlimactic, yet there's plenty to enjoy along the way.
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60I was with the movie every step of the way, right until the final credits began rolling – at which point I realized that the whole thing made no sense whatsoever, and that none of my nagging questions about what the hell was going on would ever be answered. There's a distinction to be made between being a dupe and being had.
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38A sluggish and murky sub-Polanski-esque psychodrama.
