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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.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins

Genre: Dramas

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... 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 [More]

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

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

Director: Claire Denis

Director: Claire Denis
Producer: Dong-Joo Kim
Studio: Wellspring

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

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International

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

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
07/12/06
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
05/01/06
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
04/07/06
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

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

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
04/06/06
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
03/31/06
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
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Using very little dialogue, [Denis] focuses on casting a lingering, physically enticing spell.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
03/31/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Visually ravishing and all-but-impenetrable.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
03/17/06
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
03/16/06
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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A beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/16/06
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.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
03/16/06
L.A. Weekly

...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
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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02/04/06
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

Denis composes a majestic dream book of shots and sequences.

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

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12/27/05
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

[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
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
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
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
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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