Metacritic Film

Bad Company

Starring Maud Forget, Lou Doillon, Robinson Stévenin, Maxime Mansion, and Delphine Rich

MPAA RATING: Not rated


Drama
98 minutes | Color
France
Released In Theaters February 9, 2001

Fourteen year-old Delphine is impressionable, introverted and completely under the spell of a new worldly girl in school. Influenced by her new friend, Delphine falls in love with a dangerous young man who turns her boring life into something quite different.

WRITTEN BY
Alain Layrac

DIRECTED BY
Jean-Pierre Ameris

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

70 / 100

Critic Reviews

90 Los Angeles Times
Succeeds by never tipping its hand or losing its equilibrium while its characters often seem to be doing nothing but.
75 San Francisco Chronicle
Talk about disturbing.
75 Miami Herald
Brutal and devastating.
70 Film.com David D'Arcy
The nuanced performances by Maud Forget and Lou Doillon help give Bad Company its extraordinary credibility.
70 Village Voice
A considerably more unsettling tale of one-sided amour fou, reportedly inspired by an actual case of teenage prostitution, Jean-Pierre Améris's Bad Company puts the coy prurience of American high school films in brutal perspective.
70 The New York Times
Frank, sympathetic approach to the awkward age.
70 TV Guide
By the time it's over, this deeply unsettling tale of romantic obsession strays far from the usual course of teen flicks and into some very dark territory.
70 LA Weekly Holly Willis
Refreshingly complex teen drama.
63 Boston Globe
As a tale of adolescent sexuality warped by passion, though, Bad Company is less compelling and more exploitative than its makers think.
60 New Times (L.A.)
If you're not in the mood for explicit discussions (and occasional depictions) of the sex life of French adolescents, close your eyes.

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