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  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Beginning as the tale of a sensitive brute (Räphael Terry) who returns home from World War I to his rural French village to discover his wife has died and that he must take care of their baby daughter, Juliette, the film blossoms into a pastoral portrait of Juliette as a young woman (Juliette Jouan) reckoning with a local witch’s prophec...

Directed By: Pietro Marcello

Written By: Alexander Grin, Maurizio Braucci, Maud Ameline, Geneviève Brisac, Pietro Marcello

  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 40 m

Scarlet

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Beginning as the tale of a sensitive brute (Räphael Terry) who returns home from World War I to his rural French village to discover his wife has died and that he must take care of their baby daughter, Juliette, the film blossoms into a pastoral portrait of Juliette as a young woman (Juliette Jouan) reckoning with a local witch’s prophec...

Directed By: Pietro Marcello

Written By: Alexander Grin, Maurizio Braucci, Maud Ameline, Geneviève Brisac, Pietro Marcello

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Metascore
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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92% Positive
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
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0% Negative
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90
Jun 23, 2023
Classify Pietro Marcello’s sweet new film Scarlet at your own risk, because its pleasures are as diverse and unexpected as a stroll through uncharted lands: Mapping the terrain wouldn’t be half as enjoyable as letting the place host its own truths and enchantments.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
83
Oct 25, 2022
With a work like Scarlet, so gossamer-airy and enchanting that it could almost be family-adjacent viewing like Petite Maman, we are witnessing Marcello in a mercurial, mid-career stage, watching his sensibility truly take shape.
By David Katz FULL REVIEW

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Sep 23, 2023
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Aleequintero
Sep 22, 2023
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80
Oct 25, 2022
Smaller, sweeter and more sensitive than Marcello’s earlier work.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 25, 2022
It’s a bit of a mess, no doubt about that, but a fascinating one.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 25, 2022
Quietly rewarding thanks to an excellent cast whose faces we observe in frequent close-ups as their dirt-poor characters do their very best with scant resources.
By Lisa Nesselson FULL REVIEW
69
Oct 12, 2022
As-is, Scarlet is a beautiful loll, content with its self-made magic.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 25, 2022
The arresting visual competency of Scarlet, which includes the clever use of archival footage previously seen in Marcello’s Venice darling “Martin Eden” and the beautifully composed textures of its cinematography, can’t salvage its muddled pace.
By Rafaela Sales Ross FULL REVIEW
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Jun 13, 2023
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Mauro_Lanari
Sep 8, 2023
(Mauro Lanari) An extraordinarily experimental direction devastated by a screenplay that continually shifts the narrative center of gravity until it reaches nothingness. "Encouragement not to give up in the face of difficulties": but if he literally dies of fatigue? "Novella on the importance of dreams", "fatherly love will help Juliette to become a free and proud woman": where, how, when, in an epilogue so vague as to prevent us from understanding both her concrete desire and in what way would she fulfill it by running away with a ludopathic adventurer? Would this be fairytale lyricism, magical realism, suggestive and moving spell? "Pietro Marcello's images appear increasingly on the verge of vanishing
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Production Company CG Cinéma, Avventurosa, The Match Factory, Arte France Cinéma, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Rai Cinema, Hype Studios, Wise Pictures, Cinémage 16, Cinéaxe 3, Canal+, Ciné+, Eurimages, Région Normandie, Ministero della Cultura (MiC)
Release Date Jun 9, 2023
Duration 1 h 40 m
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Awards

Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Munich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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