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- 2012
- Not Rated
- Olive Films
- 1 h 51 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Olive Films
- 1 h 51 m
Summary Rebecca returns to settle in her late grandfather's house. She seeks out childhood friend Tommy, now a university student living on his own. Their reunion is marked by a strong mutual attraction. As they get to know one another better, Rebecca discovers that Tommy has harbored deep feelings for her too since their time together as child...
Directed By: Benedek Fliegauf
Written By: Benedek Fliegauf
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Olive Films
- 1 h 51 m
- 2012
- Not Rated
- Olive Films
- 1 h 51 m
Womb
48
7.0
Summary Rebecca returns to settle in her late grandfather's house. She seeks out childhood friend Tommy, now a university student living on his own. Their reunion is marked by a strong mutual attraction. As they get to know one another better, Rebecca discovers that Tommy has harbored deep feelings for her too since their time together as child...
Directed By: Benedek Fliegauf
Written By: Benedek Fliegauf
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
48
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
75% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
48
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
75% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
You are unlikely to see a movie about incest made as sensitively and tastefully as Womb. And although the characters speak English, the film is firmly anchored in European sensibilities, thanks to its Hungarian director, Benedek Fliegauf.
An incestuous payoff might be expected, given the casting of Green; she first attracted widespread attention in Bertolucci's "The Dreamers," as a young woman who is unusually close to her brother. But whatever happens, Womb is more melancholy than erotic.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
7.0
67% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
14% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
19% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
7.0
67% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
14% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
19% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Un film visuellement beau mais dérangeant sur le fond. Ce film est un chef d’œuvre car le réalisateur nous amène à se poser des questions sur le transhumanisme et en particulier les problèmes éthiques liés au clonage humain en abordant le sujet de façon intimiste, loin des traitements habituels du film de SF avec multinationale, scientifiques démiurges et décors labos. Ici rien de tout ça. Nous sommes sur une île au nord de l'europe. Un petit village au bord de mer. S'il n'y avait pas quelques ordinateurs ou téléphones portables, on pourrait croire que le temps s'est arrêté. Rebecca vient passer ses vacances chez son grand père. Elle fait la connaissance de Tommy. La complicité et l'amour naissant entre les jeunes adolescents d'une dizaine d'années est rompu par le départ de la jeune fille qui doit rejoindre sa mère au Japon. Rebecca revient sur l’île 12 ans plus **** et retrouve Tommy. Ils sont toujours amoureux et reprennent là où ils en étaient. Mais un accident de la route va brutalement laissé Rebecca dévasté par la mort de Tommy. Elle décide d'avoir recours au clonage et donnera naissance à un nouveau Tommy. Le malaise qu'engendre la confusion des personnes et des sentiments ne nous quittera plus. Tommy 2 en tant qu'individu, enfant puis adolescent, est t-il un sujet à part entière ou « fabriqué » pour être la réincarnation d'un souvenir ? Est-ce l'amour d'une mère ou la mémoire des désirs enfantins puis adultes de Rebecca ?. Elle est en permanence sur une ligne de crête et on pressent que le basculement de l'autre côté, celui de l'inceste, peut arriver à tout moment... Eva Green est excellente de son rôle. Son charme, allié à un jeu minimaliste, peu de dialogue, des sourires ou des regards appuyés en fait un personnage difficile à cerner dans ses intentions réelles mais déterminée dans une sorte de folie aimante. J'ai été un peu plus dérangé par Matt Smith car l'ayant vu dans la série docteur Who, j'ai eu plus de mal à le détacher de ce personnage. La réalisation est excellente. La photo est magnifique. Le choix des décors parfaits, en particulier cette maison isolée, avec la symbolique de la mer, où tout a commencé et où tout se finit. Une fois le film visionné, je vous suggère de reprendre la tout première scène qu'on ne peut situer la première fois et où on comprend toute la folie du personnage.
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A heavy psychological drama bordering the edges of what it means to be ourselves. It actually agrees with my thinking that we are not born into our current character but rather molded into it by our environment. The film is very slow paced, almost like reading a comic book in movie format. You see moments from the lives of characters. But that only makes you invest into the characters more. Eva Green, as always, is perfect in every sense. The setting in which the film takes place is some sort of loners heaven, so isolated and peaceful. The worst part of this movie is the reaction of (or rather non-reaction of) Eva Green in the film's most important moment. I can't believe writers/screenplay guys would make an error like that. No one reacts like that in that situation, not even Rebecca! The best part of this movie however, is the whole rest of the movie and the psychological messages it shoots, putting ourselves the viewers in the most uncomfortable of situations, thinking about what taboo means...
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Its quietly unsettling storytelling, precision visuals and almost mythical isolated setting all feel Hungarian to the core.
The glacial pace is only quickened for seconds at a time with evocative ideas and hints of satire.
If the 20-odd seconds of blank screen squatting pointlessly amid the opening credits aren't enough warning that you're in for some seriously sluggish storytelling, then the adoption of a snail as one of the central motifs should drive the point home.
Green was meant for quick-witted comedy. Unfortunately, she's becoming a mainstay of painfully sincere slogs.
Too abstract to suggest a coherent moral lesson, but too remote to foster a satisfying emotional connection, Womb feels barren, an attempt to do too much that ultimately does very little.
I know this is not a film that everyone will like; the slow pacing and the fact it
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"Womb written and directed by Fliegauf Benedek is an artistic sci-fi about a woman who gives birth to her dead love, it
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Womb is nice on the visuals but not so nice on pretty much everything else especially the acting as once again Eva Green is the only decent but still not perfect performer in this almost pathetic movie which had a creative concept and executed it entirely wrong and makes the unforgettable mistake that Rebecca does not seem to age at all through the years the movie passes but the most dreadful thing about womb is the boring and uninspiring script that the actors had to work with overall womb is a waste of time unless you're an Eva Green fan but you still will feel disappointed
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A film which could have been good if not for some strange behavior from characters and some (oddly) bad acting from Matt Smith. I put the blame on the Director who obviously gave bad direction in scenes.
For instance, the scene where he grabs her by the neck and throws her onto the bed is completely out of character for Tommy. Even his recent discovery of the "truth" doesn't justify it and then everything from that point onwards simply makes no sense.
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The sci-fi undertones of the film is its best feature. Trouble is, they are very seldom seen and the movie seems more interested in scenery than plot or character and the pacing seems to move at the speed of a bowel movement made by my 72-year-old grandfather. Eva Green doesn't necessarily deliver a bad performance. It more so feels like she doesn't give one at all, as there is no script for her to develop from. However, the performance given by the actor who played Greens love interest, who is killed and then cloned and re-birthed by Green, isn't good at all. The movie is so slow and quiet, and his performance so odd, that at one point randomly in the film he bangs on the table angrily for a good minute or so and then just leaves the room - which I found hilarious. In the end, you'll feel like you just spent the last two-so-hours enjoying foggy images of the English coast than actually watching a movie, which throws out an interesting and potentially thought provoking premise and says absolutely nothing on the subject within its long durations of silence.
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Production Company
Razor Film Produktion GmbH,
Inforg Stúdió,
Asap Films,
Arte France Cinéma,
ZDF/Arte,
Boje Buck Produktion
Release Date Mar 30, 2012
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline What are the consequences of giving birth to your dead boyfriend?
Website
http://www.womb-film.de/
Awards
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
