Critic Reviews

• Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

  While it may take a few viewings to sort the details out, much about L'Intrus lingers, shimmering quietly in the memory.

• G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

  An interior epic with epic exteriors, a film with very little dialogue, where the pictures (photographed by the great Agnès Godard), actors and the juxtaposition of both tell the story.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  Never has Denis demanded so much from audiences as with this shimmering enigma, at once intimate and epic, but it's worth the effort and then some.

• Jay Weissberg, Variety

  A beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys.

• Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

  Denis composes a majestic dream book of shots and sequences.

• V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  [S]hould you see The Intruder? Yes -- but only if you're willing to ignore bothersome concerns about narrative and let the poetic images take over your mind.

• Maria Garcia, Film Journal International

  A film that's so recondite, it's barely there.

• Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

  yet another meandering piece of existentialism, signifying nothing except for what you're willing to project onto it.

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  It's one of those films where it's best to go with its maddening elegiac but elusive flow and let whatever comes to you be enough.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  Walk the line with Claire Denis's The Intruder but take slow, deep breaths afterward.

• Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  ... the emotions and wishes and fears of the human animal thrown large on the screen in primal, lush images.

• , Empire Magazine

  This is self-consciously intricate, but even if the storyline occasionally confuses, it's impossible not to admire Agnès Godard's glorious photography and the atmospheric soundtrack.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

  Using very little dialogue, [Denis] focuses on casting a lingering, physically enticing spell.

• Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Daily News

  Visually ravishing and all-but-impenetrable.

• , L.A. Weekly

  Denis' film -- which may be her most intricately constructed and intensely beautiful to date -- is one that transcends words and stories, a movie to be felt rather than rationalized.

• Andy Klein, Los Angeles CityBeat

  ...an aesthetic mystery that requires at least two viewings to fully figure out. Luckily, the film is fun along the way.

• Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  ... the film is surprisingly satisfying and meaningful.

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