The Man in the Basement

Name: The Man in the Basement
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: January 27, 2023
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Ambroise James Di Maggio, Bérénice Bejo, Denise Chalem, François Cluzet, Jérémie Renier

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: January 27, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Ambroise James Di Maggio, Bérénice Bejo, Denise Chalem, François Cluzet, Jérémie Renier, Jonathan Zaccaï, Patrick Descamps, Sacha Attal, Sharif Andoura, Victoria Eber

Summary: After a Jewish couple (Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo) sells their basement to a former history teacher (François Cluzet), they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.

Director: Philippe Le Guay

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 114 min

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Gary Goldstein

Jan 30, 2023

Le Guay effectively keeps the pressure on his characters and their loaded situation throughout, using ominous camera angles and anxious music cues to heighten the dread and uncertainty. He receives a fine assist from Renier and Cluzet, who commit to their divergent roles with unnerving intensity. It’s a terrific film. Read full review

Rex Reed

Jan 30, 2023

As it unfolds, The Man in the Basement is as provocative, intelligent and suspenseful as anything you are likely to see this year. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jan 26, 2023

The performances are impeccable, and the film’s structural elements are deftly handled across the board. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jan 27, 2023

The Man in the Basement doesn’t endorse a single answer; it ends on a deliberately tentative note, leaving the viewer thoroughly unsettled. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 26, 2023

Cluzet brings a marvelous edge to the tit-for-tat exchanges that ratchet up the anger, which is pretty much what his character wants. Oh yes, he’s easy to hate. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Jan 26, 2023

Somewhere in “The Man in the Basement” there is a smart psychodrama sharpened by political urgency, but what we get is a middling think piece that too quickly loses momentum — and peters out by the end. Read full review

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Mauro_Lanari

Mar 10, 2023

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If apparently Le Guay wants to contrast the French Enlightenment with the darkness of anti-Semitic denial, in reality he points his finger at the fragile balance of the privileged Parisian bourgeoisie, ending up making a rather superficial and confused screenplay that(Mauro Lanari)
If apparently Le Guay wants to contrast the French Enlightenment with the darkness of anti-Semitic denial, in reality he points his finger at the fragile balance of the privileged Parisian bourgeoisie, ending up making a rather superficial and confused screenplay that obviously does not lean towards Fonzic's theses, but makes the mistake of transforming them into the film's McGuffin.… Expand

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