Deception

Name: Deception
Genre: Drama
Released: May 20, 2022
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 42
Cast: André Oumansky, Anouk Grinberg, Denis Podalydès, Emmanuelle Devos, Gennadiy Fomin

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Le Pacte | Release Date (Streaming): May 20, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: André Oumansky, Anouk Grinberg, Denis Podalydès, Emmanuelle Devos, Gennadiy Fomin, Ian Turiak, Léa Seydoux, Madalina Constantin, Matej Hofmann, Miglen Mirtchev, Rebecca Marder, Saadia Bentaïeb

Summary: An American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Lisa Nesselson

Aug 31, 2021

This zig-zagging emotionally perceptive tale of an American writer abroad and the women he has bedded — or perhaps merely written about having bedded — is accomplished French filmmaking the way arthouse denizens like it. Read full review

Richard Brody

Mar 4, 2022

In Desplechin’s implicit view of his artistic heroes and milieu, he turns Roth’s personal story into his own. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

May 19, 2022

True, its hero is a philandering middle-aged novelist; he has an affair with a divine younger woman; and there’s even an imaginary trial where said novelist stands before a jury of women accusing him of misogyny. But, if you can tolerate these passé indulgences, there’s also something slyly compelling about this ethereal, pillow-talk-heavy drama. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

May 13, 2022

With his Deception, Arnaud Desplechin renders one of a great author’s slighter works titanic by comparison. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

May 20, 2022

To give Deception, the latest attempt to bring Roth to the screen, a little bit of credit, it does come closer than most to rendering his prose stylings into cinematic terms. But it does so in a film so lifeless and inert from a dramatic standpoint that few viewers are likely to notice or even care. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Aug 31, 2021

Like a beltway surrounding its hero’s bloviating ego trips and massive libido, the film keeps turning in circles around a subject that’s only truly interesting if you’re Philip himself. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Aug 31, 2021

A film full of people smiling knowingly and laughing delightedly at each other’s not-especially-funny-or-interesting remarks, and it’s all the more insufferable for things the film gets fundamentally and structurally wrong. Read full review

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May 26, 2022

If you can get past the tedium of its botched intellectual stink and the wasted performance of its lead actors, you might be able to salvage something from this film, which I found very poor and dull, while trying so hard to look and sound smart in order to compensate for its monumentalIf you can get past the tedium of its botched intellectual stink and the wasted performance of its lead actors, you might be able to salvage something from this film, which I found very poor and dull, while trying so hard to look and sound smart in order to compensate for its monumental flaw, which is to be of any interest whatsoever.… Expand

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