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Director: Benoît Jacquot
Movie review
From Time Out Online
A chaste young maiden (Isild Le Besco) in pristine white gowns hautily lopes around her rural residence in southern France in the mid-to-late nineteenth centutry. That is until a grime-covered urchin (Nahuel Perez Biscayart) who can barely talk wheedles his way in to her family circle, hypnotises her, lures her on a punishing cross-country jaunt and proceeds to ravish her at any given opportunity. With its hysterical trilling violins and cast of larger-than-life grotesques, this latest from prolific French director Benoît Jacquot is clearly played with tongue firmly in its Gothic sex-romp cheek. And it’s for that reason that the ‘serious’ ambiguities that the tale throws up in its final reel (was she really hypnotised? who really is the freak?) feel self-important and tonally misguided. Plus, its far too repetitive and dull to work as flippant genre fare.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out Online 2010 London Film Festival
Cast & crew
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Cast: Isild Le Besco, Nahuel Perez full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 102 mins
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