Augustine

Augustine (2013)

  • 77% of critics liked it
    (22 reviews)

  • 58% of users liked it
    (201 ratings)

After suffering an inexplicable seizure which leaves her paralyzed on her right side,19-year-old illiterate kitchen maid Augustine (27 year-old singer-turned-actress Soko in a break out performance), is shipped off to Paris' all female psychiatric hospital Pitié-Salpêtriere which specializes in… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Alice Winocour
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
May 17, 2013 Limited
Music Box Films

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Brody, New Yorker

    Vague conjurings of mood take the place of insight, sentiment takes the place of complexity, and a clumsy and superficial attention to the rigid script keeps the movie from coming to life.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    A dark, and rather disturbing debut.

  • Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post

    Winocour skillfully films Augustine being exhibited for other doctors in several disturbingly erotic scenes, but elsewhere Soko's stolid, one-note demeanor takes a toll.

  • John Anderson, Wall Street Journal

    Soko is terrific, but it is Mr. Lindon who delivers the performance of the film, his internalized consternation amounting to an eloquent dispatch from the war between the sexes.

  • A.O. Scott, New York Times

    Ms. Winocour is not inclined to turn "Augustine" into a neatly moralized fable of a predator and his victim. Rather, the film is what might be called a melodrama of transference ...

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  • Carlos M


    This almost-good drama is a missed opportunity, considering the intriguing premise and the talent of the actors involved. What could have been a fascinating exploration of a psychological illness gives place to too much clichéd doctor-patient sexual tension.

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