Using very little dialogue, [Denis] focuses on casting a lingering, physically enticing spell.
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03/31/06
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... [More]
Starring: Florence Loiret, Beatrice Dalle, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin
Director: Claire Denis
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Reviews for The Intruder
... the emotions and wishes and fears of the human animal thrown large on the screen in primal, lush images.
04/06/06
Seductive and emotionally charged but maddeningly elusive.
08/26/05
... the film is surprisingly satisfying and meaningful.
12/27/05
A film that's so recondite, it's barely there.
03/01/07
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.
12/22/05
Top CriticAn 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.
03/31/06
Top Critic...an aesthetic mystery that requires at least two viewings to fully figure out. Luckily, the film is fun along the way.
03/16/06
This mysterious object may be Denis's most gorgeous film (which is saying something), but more than that, it's a fearless filmmaker's boldest experiment yet, a direct line from her unconscious to yours.
12/20/05
Top CriticWhile it may take a few viewings to sort the details out, much about L'Intrus lingers, shimmering quietly in the memory.
04/07/06
Denis composes a majestic dream book of shots and sequences.
02/03/06
Top Critic[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.
12/27/05
Top Criticyet another meandering piece of existentialism, signifying nothing except for what you're willing to project onto it.
07/12/06
...a strange and beautiful work, but it doesn't quite cohere.
08/04/05
Invisible emotional and psychological tendons are the ties that keep the film from completely dispersing into non-sequential incoherence.
12/06/05
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.
05/01/06
Exciting, vital cinema that pushes the boundaries of what movies can do. It's a masterpiece.
12/21/05
It's intended to puzzle us -- and sure, the little puzzles peppered throughout the film are fine. It's the grand non-sequiturs that are distracting.
03/22/05
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.
03/16/06
Top CriticA beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys.
03/16/06
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