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La Captive

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La Captive reviews
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9.0 User Score:

Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Chantal Akerman
Eric De Kuyper
Marcel Proust (novel La prisonnière)

Directed by: Chantal Akerman

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 3, 2002

Running Time: 118 minutes, Color

Origin: France / Belgium

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère, Françoise Bertin, Aurore Clément, Vanessa Larré, and Samuel Tasinaje

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

What The Critics Said

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80

TV Guide Ken Fox

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.

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

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."

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50

Variety David Rooney

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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Vince H. gave it a10:
Yes the screenplay is not as great as it could have been (it's Proust for goodness sakes!), but because it's Akerman, this film is formally brilliant, patiently acute, subtle, and transcendent. Akerman is one of the four or five greatest living filmmakers in the world (yes that's right) and though I enjoy her non-narrative films like "From the Other Side" and "D'Est" more (and wish they would get wider distribution), any Akerman film one can see is a privilege.

Alain W. gave it a 7:
Il faut comprendre!

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