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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.
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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Reviews for The Intruder
yet another meandering piece of existentialism, signifying nothing except for what you're willing to project onto it.
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.
While it may take a few viewings to sort the details out, much about L'Intrus lingers, shimmering quietly in the memory.
... the emotions and wishes and fears of the human animal thrown large on the screen in primal, lush images.
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.
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.
Using very little dialogue, [Denis] focuses on casting a lingering, physically enticing spell.
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.
A beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys.
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.
...an aesthetic mystery that requires at least two viewings to fully figure out. Luckily, the film is fun along the way.
[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.
Characteristically impressionistic, French director Claire Denis' latest meditation is simultaneously baffling and beautiful, and definitely not for everyone.
The Intruder ... is exhilarating and exhausting, the kind of picture you don't bounce back from immediately.
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