January 12, 2007
Collapsing marriage melodrama is too talky to enjoy.
Chantal Neuwirth, Claudia Coli, Isabelle Huppert
Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, director Patrice Chereau's emotionally charged drama (based on a Joseph Conrad short story) follows the unraveling of a seemingly happy bourgeois couple's marriage. P...( read more
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Directed by: Chantal Neuwirth, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Patrice Chéreau, Raina Kabaivanska
Release Date: October 7, 2005
DVD Release Date: December 19, 2006
Stats: 238 reviews
Flixster Reviews (238)
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May 19, 2007Like Hiro Nakamura, the creators of this film can bend space-time. How else to explain their ability to make 90 minutes feel like 90,000 years.
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December 19, 2006This film take the period drama and heightens the genre. What we have is a period drame with a heightened 21st centruy sensibility. The cutting is fast and like the film Bound the athmosphere is heightened. One interesting aspect is how the characters inner turmoil translates in...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
August 25, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
August 16, 2006
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
An emotionally explosive adaptation of Joseph Conrad's short story. full review
July 28, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Scenes from a Marriage was twice as devastating with none of the stylistic folderol. full review
May 26, 2006
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
A formally inventive version of the literary classic. full review
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