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- 2001
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 37 m
- 2001
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 37 m
Summary A French comedy about an agoraphobic man who joins a dating club after spending the last eight years locked up in his apartment with his computer. The film is shot entirely from the man's point of view.
Directed By: Pierre-Paul Renders
Written By: Philippe Blasband
- 2001
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 37 m
- 2001
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 37 m
Thomas in Love
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Summary A French comedy about an agoraphobic man who joins a dating club after spending the last eight years locked up in his apartment with his computer. The film is shot entirely from the man's point of view.
Directed By: Pierre-Paul Renders
Written By: Philippe Blasband
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
25% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
63
63% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
25% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Philippe Blasband's screenplay is witty and economical, and the film's editing is crisp.
Starts gently, with amusing drollness, then gets more serious, even provocative, without sacrificing its light touch. This is very much a film with something on its mind.
A funny and original film set in a future when communications are even more refined than they are now.
Although he's invisible, his poignant desire to overcome his isolation makes this film an interesting, frequently funny, and cautionary riff on our increasingly computer-bound society.
The movie itself isn't as interesting as the conversations you can have about it. It duplicates Thomas' miserable world so well we want to escape it as urgently as Thomas does.
"Center of the World" portrays a much more believable example of what happens when a computer nerd realizes that his erotic fantasies aren't the same thing as love.
Since we never see Thomas, we can't care for him. And he's hardly a sympathetic "hero" in his treatment of women and his insistence that other characters honor his personal boundaries while he ignores theirs.
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Awards
Gérardmer Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Angers European First Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
