The Intruder (2005)
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Florence Loiret, Beatrice Dalle, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, Katerina Golubeva
DVD Info
Release:
Apr 25, 2006
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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Reviews
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.
Denis composes a majestic dream book of shots and sequences.
[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.
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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