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The Intruder

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The Intruder (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 21  Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.1/10
 
Consensus: The impressionistic narrative may confound the viewer, but Denis crafts wonderfully poetic, dreamlike imagery. The impressionistic narrative may confound the viewer, but Denis crafts wonderfully poetic, dreamlike imagery. more
 
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 23, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $4,640
Synopsis:
Louis Trebor (Michel Subor), a robust and mysterious loner, lives alone in an isolated woodland compound on the French-Swiss border in the Jura mountains. An enigmatic figure and emotionally distant father, he has little contact with his grown up son, Sidney (Grégoire Colin) -- who lives... [More]
Louis Trebor (Michel Subor), a robust and mysterious loner, lives alone in an isolated woodland compound on the French-Swiss border in the Jura mountains. An enigmatic figure and emotionally distant father, he has little contact with his grown up son, Sidney (Grégoire Colin) -- who lives near Geneva with his wife, a Swiss border guard (Florence Loiret-Calle), and young family -- seemingly preferring the company of his dogs. Trebor's emotional contact is seemingly limited to an affair with a local pharmacist (Bambou) and a wordless attraction to a beautiful and equally aloof dog breeder (Béatrice Dalle). An ailing heart forces Trebor to leave his snow-covered wilderness to visit a bank vault in Geneva in order to withdraw enough cash for a new heart on the black market. Shadowed by a mysterious, unnamed Russian woman (Katia Golubeva), Trebor recovers from a clandestine transplant operation, and travels to the bustling markets and shipyards of Pusan in Korea. Here he agrees to buy a boat and starts on a voyage south, slowly threading his way back to his former home on a remote island near Tahiti, where he searches for the lost son he fathered years before. He is uncertain of the welcome he will receive after all these years. --© Wellspring [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Florence Loiret, Beatrice Dalle, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, Katerina Golubeva

Director: Claire Denis
Producer: Dong-Joo Kim

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 25, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • Stereo - French
  • Subtitles - English - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Interviews - 1. Claire Denis - Director
  • Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Filmographies

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

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03/01/07 03:38 AM
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International
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yet another meandering piece of existentialism, signifying nothing except for what you're willing to project onto it.

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07/12/06 07:47 PM
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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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.

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05/01/06 05:25 PM
Dennis Schwartz
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While it may take a few viewings to sort the details out, much about L'Intrus lingers, shimmering quietly in the memory.

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04/07/06 03:47 PM
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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... the emotions and wishes and fears of the human animal thrown large on the screen in primal, lush images.

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04/06/06 07:27 PM
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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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.

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04/01/06 03:58 AM
Empire Magazine
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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.

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03/31/06 03:23 PM
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
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Using very little dialogue, [Denis] focuses on casting a lingering, physically enticing spell.

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03/31/06 09:23 AM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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Visually ravishing and all-but-impenetrable.

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03/17/06 07:18 PM
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News
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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.

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03/16/06 07:05 PM
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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A beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys.

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03/16/06 03:51 PM
Jay Weissberg
Variety
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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.

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03/16/06 01:29 PM
L.A. Weekly
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...an aesthetic mystery that requires at least two viewings to fully figure out. Luckily, the film is fun along the way.

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03/16/06 01:37 AM
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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02/04/06 03:50 AM
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy
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Denis composes a majestic dream book of shots and sequences.

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02/03/06 03:16 AM
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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... the film is surprisingly satisfying and meaningful.

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12/27/05 07:38 PM
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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[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.

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12/27/05 07:37 PM
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Characteristically impressionistic, French director Claire Denis' latest meditation is simultaneously baffling and beautiful, and definitely not for everyone.

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12/27/05 07:34 PM
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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The Intruder ... is exhilarating and exhausting, the kind of picture you don't bounce back from immediately.

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12/22/05 07:11 PM
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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Claire Denis's magnificent enigma of a film explores the troubled soul of a brooding loner who travels halfway around the world to begin a new life.

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12/22/05 05:20 PM
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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