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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 2 h 18 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 2 h 18 m
Liberté

Summary Just before the French Revolution, in a forest outside Berlin, a band of libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI rendezvous with the legendary German seducer and freethinker, the Duc de Walchen (Helmut Berger), to convince him to join in their mission: the rejection of authority and all moral boundaries. What begins as an evening...

Directed By: Albert Serra

Written By: Albert Serra

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 2 h 18 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 2 h 18 m

Liberté

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Just before the French Revolution, in a forest outside Berlin, a band of libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI rendezvous with the legendary German seducer and freethinker, the Duc de Walchen (Helmut Berger), to convince him to join in their mission: the rejection of authority and all moral boundaries. What begins as an evening...

Directed By: Albert Serra

Written By: Albert Serra

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
51
33% Positive
3 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
51
33% Positive
3 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews

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91
Feb 12, 2020
This is both Serra’s most uncompromising film and his most enjoyable. In a way, it’s perhaps a stunning refute to the notion of “edgelord” as pejorative term; someone has to deliberately provoke to show us something we haven’t seen before.
By Ethan Vestby FULL REVIEW
83
May 4, 2020
The movie is a visual investigation into the roots of sexual liberation in societies steeped in repression. Watching it from start to finish is a means of engaging with the inquiry at its center.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 2, 2020
This film is an ordeal that I never want to go through again, but it’s undoubtedly executed with a cerebral conviction and uncompromising seriousness that no Anglo Saxon film-maker could approach.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
58
Apr 29, 2020
For the most part, though, Liberté is a drearily alienating experience; Serra’s depictions are characterized mainly by studied grotesquerie and tedious monotony.
By Lawrence Garcia FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 4, 2019
Liberté is shocking, but it is staged as banally as possible.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
30
Apr 30, 2020
Explicit but in no sense pornographic — it’s rather like antimatter with respect to pornography — Liberté plays an arguably specious moral and intellectual game, poking around the porous areas between squalor and perdition, and ultimately producing a pictorial and aural container of tedium.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 4, 2019
It's as if a bunch of horny grad students decided to loot a costume store and then remake Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom with camera phones, but less fun.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Idéale Audience, Rosa Filmes, Andergraun Films, Lupa Film, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), ICA French-Portuguese Co-Production Fund, Televisió de Catalunya (TV3), Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC), Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), Arte/Cofinova 11, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Release Date May 1, 2020
Duration 2 h 18 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://andergraun.com/cat/cinema/liberte.html
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Awards

Gaudí Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 2 Nominations

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