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  • 2012
  • R
  • ATO Pictures
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • ATO Pictures
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary Struggling American writer Tom Ricks travels to Paris to be reunited with his estranged wife and daughter but soon finds himself embroiled in the city's seedy underside and seduced by a mysterious woman who may not be everything she appears to be...(Film4)

Directed By: Pawel Pawlikowski

Written By: Douglas Kennedy, Pawel Pawlikowski

  • 2012
  • R
  • ATO Pictures
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • ATO Pictures
  • 1 h 24 m

The Woman in the Fifth

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Struggling American writer Tom Ricks travels to Paris to be reunited with his estranged wife and daughter but soon finds himself embroiled in the city's seedy underside and seduced by a mysterious woman who may not be everything she appears to be...(Film4)

Directed By: Pawel Pawlikowski

Written By: Douglas Kennedy, Pawel Pawlikowski

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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11% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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44% Mixed
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11% Negative
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88
Jun 20, 2012
Tom has enlisted our identification and sympathy, but he seems hopelessly isolated within his own bubble of despair. How much that happens is in his mind?
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 13, 2012
Pawlikowski has crafted a film that throbs with substantial personal weight and bristles with a violent, haunting interior life.
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67
Jun 13, 2012
Heavy on mood and murk.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 13, 2012
You're not sure what this is till it's over, but certainly Hawke's performance is his nerviest and most sincere in a decade.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 13, 2012
This film has to be indulged a little, and you'll have to negotiate the stumbling block that is Hawke's stodgy, dodgy French accent.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 14, 2012
Hawke works hard to solidify Pawlikowski's wispy ideas (which are adapted from Douglas Kennedy's novel).
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
38
Jun 14, 2012
It's a curio, ripe with dreamy atmospherics and intriguing mysteries, but little else.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Haut et Court, Film4, UK Film Council, SPI International, The Bureau, Canal+, Orange Cinéma Séries, Artificial Eye, Memento Films International, Coficup, Backup Media, Soficinéma 6, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
Release Date Jun 15, 2012
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline What you can not resist, you may not survive
Website http://womaninthefifth-movie.com/
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Awards

Rome Film Fest
• 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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