Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 13
A mesmerizing performance by ingenue Isild Le Besco makes this stylish French drama a taut, compelling escapade.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 4
A mesmerizing performance by ingenue Isild Le Besco makes this stylish French drama a taut, compelling escapade.
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Based on actual events, a Parisian art student, Lili, falls for a handsome Moroccan criminal and impulsively follows him into hiding after a bungled bank robbery. She joins him on the run in a dizzying cross-continent escape through Spain, Morocco and Greece, but a sudden betrayal leaves her stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Unrated, 1 hr. 36 min.
Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
Apr 29, 2005 Wide
Dec 12, 2006
Cinema Guild
All Critics (49) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (13) | DVD (5)
Shot in wide-screen, low-grain black and white, this sleek suspense narrative quietly unpacks the delusions and emotional hunger of its upper-class heroine.
If you're not careful, A Tout De Suite--Benoit Jacquot's ode to the French New Wave, infused with his love of American crime classics 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Badlands'--will fool you.
Crazy things certainly happen to Lili, but Le Besco drifts through most of the proceedings as though she were following a checklist: long face (done), three-way with lithe Athenians (yup), the occasional suggestion of zombietude (mission accomplished).
This is a film of disturbing emotional power and frank sexuality that is photographed in sensuous black and white.
Le Besco has an amazingly shaped face that, alone, takes you through most of the movie.
It's one of those rich girl/bad boy things that defy understanding and leave you on the outside. Fascinated, but on the outside.
Privileged girl runs with bank-robber boyfriend.
Should deliver to that core of filmgoers who respond to anything French, edgy, well-reviewed and well-done.
Stylish but pointless and bland romantic thriller.
Despite the film's infectious style and the powerful charisma of its leading performers, it doesn't really catch fire.
A Tout de Suite contains a sufficient amount of action and suspense but it's also quite the literary picture.
The film's retro appeal includes black-and-white cinematography and a Truffaut-esque fascination for parallels between the characters' wild flight and filmmaking itself as a wide-eyed, open-ended experience.
... a painful and poignant film at once empathetic and critical, more soberly unnerving than exciting, but never less than compelling.
Opaque stares and pregnant pauses can only pull so much weight, no matter how snazzy the packaging.
A Tout de Suite is a sometimes-interesting film, particularly its first 30 minutes, but runs on long after the intrigue ends...
Benoit Jacquot's drama creates a sense of dislocation with its impossible-to- predict-what-will- happen-next plot, jumpy black-and-white cinematography, elusive characters and casual approach to the time in which it's set.
Starts out and mostly finishes as a typical French disaffectation piece - a bored young woman with a well-off family runs away to find herself - but creates an interesting subversion by making her self-discovery really suck. Running away with her fugitive boyfriend initially seems like it'll be a grand adventure, but
May 28, 2010Super Reviewer
With "A Tout de Suite," writer-director Benoit Jacquot has made another rumination about the reverbations of women's actions.("Sade" being an exception to this rule.) In other words, if we have freedom, than we must accept the consequences of our actions. Whether this is sexist depends on the circumstances of the
August 1, 2007Super Reviewer
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