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L'Ennui
Phaedra Cinema

L'Ennui reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 59 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.0 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not rated

Starring Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, and Robert Kramer

A fortysomething, recently separated philosophy professor (Berling) encounters the former model of a painter who apparently died while having intercourse with her. The professor begins having sex with the teenage girl on a daily basis and becomes obsessed with her.


GENRE(S): Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Cedric Kahn
Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
Alberto Moravia (novel)
 
DIRECTED BY: Cedric Kahn  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 19, 2000 
Video: December 19, 2000 
Theatrical: October 15, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 120 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: France 
LANGUAGE(S): French (with English subtitles) 

What The Critics Said

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80
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A must-see.
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75
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
There's enough sexual manic depression to justify house calls from Dr. Laura.
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75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Kahn manages to turn his feast of flesh, navel-gazing talk and self-destructive jealousy into a thoughtful reflection on the subject.
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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film.
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70
Village Voice Elliott Stein
The plump, Rubenesque Guillemin steals the show. Her understated simplicity is her strength -- this is one of the major movie debuts of recent years.
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70
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Catches you with a creepy sucker punch.
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63
New York Post Hannah Brown
Talky, overlong and, ultimately, just as predictable and repetitive as the maddening relationship it depicts.
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63
New York Daily News Robert Dominguez
Only mildly interesting.
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60
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Overly schematic, not always believable in its crude sexual mechanics and ultimately unsensual. But it lays out the laws of erotic attraction with a brutal directness that is downright scary.
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50
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Energetic acting and directing make it a less exasperating experience than it might have been.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's a movie about an idiot in the grip of something common place. He starts off as a garden-variety idiot and progresses to a big idiot.
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40
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
As exasperating as it is insightful. The film ultimately falters, though, because it's so resolutely old-fashioned.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

David R. gave it a9:
Brilliant adaptation of Moravia, with a French twist.

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