| 100 |
Mr. Showbiz
Ozon -- has finally hit a home run, and Rampling is his most remarkable RBI.
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| 100 |
Washington Post
It's a great pleasure that -- we get to ponder one of the most involving psychological mysteries in recent memory.
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| 100 |
Boston Globe
Loren King
Mesmerizing and unforgettable.
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| 91 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fascinating, visually gorgeous cinematic study that will frustrate some viewers by its ambiguity.
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| 90 |
Variety
An exquisite reflection on personal bereavement.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
Requires careful attention at its abrupt finish. Close concentration on the final shots yields a meaning not possible should a viewer's attention wander or turn away a few moments too soon.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
Powerfully enigmatic study of the fundamental opacity of human relations.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
It's a role of fierce demands, and Rampling meets them all. In a summer of crass, Rampling is a true class act.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Mr. Ozon gives the movie to Ms. Rampling, whose performance is like a perfectly executed piano etude, finding precise, impossibly subtle shadings of pleasure, confusion and distress.
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| 90 |
Washington Post
Charlotte Rampling takes you so far inside the pain of Marie Drillon it leaves you stirred, shaken and a little in awe.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
Manages the most delicate of hat tricks: It gives definition to uncertainty.
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| 88 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ozon has crafted a near-perfect film, a mournful, moving kind of cinema poetry.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A movie of introspection and defiance.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
Ozon specializes in dissecting the vulnerability, erotic longing, and garbled intentions with which people regularly rub up against one another.
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| 80 |
Village Voice
Rampling has never been as beautiful, not to mention as emotionally naked, nuanced, and affecting as she is here.
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| 80 |
TV Guide
The film ends with a return to the beach, and one of the most psychologically chilling and expertly photographed shots imaginable.
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| 80 |
New York Magazine
Creepily evocative.
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| 80 |
New Times (L.A.)
A beautifully acted, carefully written meditation on one woman's grief, the enigma of imagination, the persistence of desire and -- let's face it -- the power of denial.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Rampling's authority over splintered emotions has the force of revelation.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Unexpectedly subtle cinematic style.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
A fascinating movie that explores grief from an emotionally truthful angle rarely seen in movies.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
This is Rampling's film, and she's never less than surprising, never less than a revelation.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
It stays in your memory, will not leave you in peace.
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| 75 |
New York Post
A sensitive and subtle meditation on aging, loss and bereavement.
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