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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet (Jérémie Elkaïm and Anaïs Demoustier), son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion. Scandalized by their affair, society hounds them until, unable to resist their feelings, they flee.

Directed By: Valérie Donzelli

Written By: Jérémie Elkaïm, Jean Gruault, Gilles Marchand, Valérie Donzelli

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 45 m

Marguerite & Julien

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet (Jérémie Elkaïm and Anaïs Demoustier), son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion. Scandalized by their affair, society hounds them until, unable to resist their feelings, they flee.

Directed By: Valérie Donzelli

Written By: Jérémie Elkaïm, Jean Gruault, Gilles Marchand, Valérie Donzelli

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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45% Mixed
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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45% Mixed
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45% Negative
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70
Mar 3, 2016
The operatic tragedy of Marguerite and Julien's plight proves an effectively creepy dramatic engine.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
58
May 22, 2015
Demoustier is charismatic enough to almost help Donzelli pull it off, but Elkaïm is so stiff as Julien you never understand why Marguerite is willing to risk her life in the first place.
By Gregory Ellwood FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 24, 2016
It’s somehow both mannered and style-less, fantastical and under-imagined—perversely watchable, in other words.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
40
May 23, 2015
As fate closes in on the lovers, the silliness of their own behaviour and Marguerite & Julien in general prevents any pathos from entering the scene. The taboo of incest never troubles as one never truly believe that they are brother and sister - or in love - or anything else.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
30
May 23, 2015
The film is a painfully silly, laughably naive Romance with a capital “R.”
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
25
Feb 22, 2016
It finds its filmmaker completely lost between impulses to pay homage, play it safe, or offer something—anything—new.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
10
Feb 26, 2016
The excruciating experience of Marguerite & Julien need only be endured by viewers with an obsessive interest in the least constructive aesthetic currents in contemporary French cinema.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Rectangle Productions, Wild Bunch, Orange Studio, France 2 Cinéma, Scope Pictures, Framboise Productions, Cofinova 11, Cinémage 9, SofiTVciné 2, Palatine Étoile 12, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, La Région Île-de-France, Cinémage 7 Développement, Cofinova 9, SCOPE Invest
Release Date Feb 26, 2016
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
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Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Nominations

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