Critic Reviews
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Simon Crook, Empire Magazine
Conti, an actor as sturdily reliable as a Volvo, delivers a brittle, curmudgeonly turn, but the story's stiff and the denouement as ordinary as a piece of A4.
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David Jenkins, Time Out
With its unlovely DV aesthetic and cheesy midi-synth score, the film has clearly been put together on the cheap. Yet it's also severely lacking in the fundamentals.
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Kevin Maher, Times [UK]
A Closed Book is directed by Raoul Ruiz, a "revered member of the European avant-garde" who decided to tackle "the Anglo-Saxon tradition" - with execrable results.
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Xan Brooks, Guardian [UK]
Eccentric Chilean director Raoul Ruiz has rifled through the Hammer bag of horror tricks and come up with a relentlessly silly, oddly diverting yarn.
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Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph
The film feels less like a thriller than an aesthete's tease, and one with a disappointingly stiff, Europuddingy flavour.
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Cast
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Daryl Hannahas Jane Ryder -
Tom Contias Sir Paul
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