Le refuge (Hideaway (Le refuge))

Le refuge (Hideaway (Le refuge)) (2009)

  • 86% of critics liked it
    (36 reviews)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (10,211 ratings)

Mousse (Isabelle Carre) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are young, beautiful, rich and in love, but drugs have invaded their lives. After Louis fatal overdose, Mousse soon learns she is pregnant (actress Isabelle Carr was pregnant while shooting.) Feeling lost, Mousse escapes to a beautiful beach house… More

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Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Sep 10, 2010 Limited
Strand Releasing

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    For a time in her life, a woman's pregnancy is the most important thing about her. That is the subject of Hideaway.

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    Gradually, Ozon and the actors convince us of the reality of this world and persuade us to watch the film on its own, unforced terms. Nothing much is happening, except life.

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    Hideaway" is a spellbinding film, and Ozon, who is perhaps best known for the much darker Under the Sand and Swimming Pool ... continues to be an inspiring director of actors.

  • Manohla Dargis, New York Times

    One of the pleasures of Hideaway (Le Refuge), from François Ozon, an erratic talent of satisfying films like Under the Sand and misfires like 8 Women, is its insistence on ambiguity.

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

    Sometimes a movie makes a point that's been made before, but makes it so beautifully and so quietly that it feels like you're discovering it for the first time.

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  • Rubia Carolina .


    Death, relationships, life, homosexualism, family, being a mother, a country house near the beach. All the recurring themes in François Ozon's films are seen in Le Refuge, where he works again with Melvil Poupad and Mari Rivière in small roles. Rivière's character and scene… More

  • Gordon A


    Sensitive, beguiling tale of a women's struggle with a solitary pregnancy and drug rehab which perhaps underplays the horrors of withdrawal but scores for tackling the female experience of pregnancy. This works thanks to a multilayered performance from Carre and hauntingly… More

  • Walter M


    In "Le Refuge," a mother(Claire Vernet) discovers her son Louis(Melvil Poupaud) prostrate on the floor of a disused apartment in Paris, having overdosed from heroin. He does not survive but his girlfriend Mousse(Isabelle Carre) does after being in a coma for six hours,… More

  • Daniel P


    I adore these kinds of films; character driven, well acted, uncomplicated in terms of plot, emotive and perceptive. The French seem to do them especially well. Isabelle Carré, who really was pregnant during filming, is a revelation in understatement - if that isn't a… More

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