Despite the film's infectious style and the powerful charisma of its leading performers, it doesn't really catch fire.
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A Tout de Suite (2005)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:30
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: A mesmerizing performance by ingenue Isild Le Besco makes this stylish French drama a taut, compelling escapade.
Theatrical Release:Apr 29, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: A stylish, erotically charged thriller, À Tout de Suite is the highly anticipated new film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot (Sade, A Single Girl). Based on actual events, it tells the... [More]
Starring: Islid Le Besco, Ouassini Embarek, Laurence Cordier, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Director: Benoit Jacquot
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Reviews for A Tout de Suite
... a painful and poignant film at once empathetic and critical, more soberly unnerving than exciting, but never less than compelling.
08/18/05
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.
08/25/05
Top CriticDepicts one young French woman's escape into a world of wild love, danger, freedom, and adventure.
04/28/05
A film of a style and an inclination that fulfills no need, and ultimately does nothing to nourish the soul of the now.
04/25/05
A Tout de Suite contains a sufficient amount of action and suspense but it’s also quite the literary picture.
12/06/05
Jacquot has really excelled at recreating another era - the movie feels like a lost New Wave film just coming to light.
07/11/05
A Tout de Suite is a sometimes-interesting film, particularly its first 30 minutes, but runs on long after the intrigue ends...
08/12/05
Jacquot shows how two cultural outsiders, tied to their fragile bond of love, merely exchange one set of chains for another.
05/05/05
This is a film of disturbing emotional power and frank sexuality that is photographed in sensuous black and white.
08/04/05
Top CriticThe movie oozes stylish filmmaking, but the art house angst quickly gets stale. Right Now, hhmmm - maybe later, maybe much later, ok, maybe never.
05/27/05
Isild Le Besco radiates such pure happiness that she makes me wonder if anyone else has ever properly experienced the emotion.
04/26/05
Sexually explicit but never exploitative and shot in dim black-and-white that recalls more adventurous times in French cinema.
04/29/05
Whether focused on Lili's face or standing back to take in her long limbs, Caroline Champetier's enthralling black-and-white camerawork is at once nimble and evocative.
07/01/05
[Isild Le Besco] has an unusual look and the ability to appear unformed, hard, vulnerable and sexy all at once.
05/20/05
Top CriticA downward spiral of destitution...like a soul jogging in place in Purgatory.
04/25/05
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.
08/04/05
It's the story of a sleeping beauty roused.
04/26/05
Top CriticDeft homage to the French New Wave.
04/28/05
Top CriticIt's one of those rich girl/bad boy things that defy understanding and leave you on the outside. Fascinated, but on the outside.
06/24/05
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