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05/12/07
Comedy of Power (2005)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:29
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.6/10
Synopsis: Celebrated French director Claude Chabrol (LA CEREMONIE) teams up with his regular muse, Isabelle Huppert, for this scandal-driven drama.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Marilyn Canto, Robin Renucci
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Reviews for Comedy of Power
A Comedy Of Power fails to dig deep into this idea, or into the life of its protagonist. It's largely left to the charismatic Huppert to make this sly but oddly slight drama a decent watch.
12/13/07
This movie can't commit to a genre, let alone a logical sequence or complete idea. But there is a wisdom in its blasé assessments and frivolous air: What's the point; where's the wine?
02/16/07
Top CriticWith Isabelle Huppert holding court and irresistibly dominating the proceedings, this is never really about the crimes she investigates - but it probably should have been, as the film, for all the quality of its performances, is a trial for the viewer.
12/06/07
A witty, timely drama.
03/02/07
It's not often that you see the craft of cinema so perfectly executed -- or a group of fancy scoundrels so ruthlessly caught and skewered. Comedy of Power, like all of [Cluade] Chabrol's Hitchcockian films, is dark, smart and delicious.
03/01/07
Top CriticChabrol manages a brisk, light tone, even though the movie is mostly talk, and Huppert turns in a powerhouse performance.
04/19/07
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11/30/07
Chabrol has fashioned a mystery that caves in on itself, but unfortunately, it caves in on the audience, too.
01/17/07
Top Critic[A] film that delivers quite a few chuckles but generally is very tame; all the characters never really leap off the screen and into your heart.
04/25/06
Although Chabrol is celebrated as a master of suspense, his great movies, like this one and the underappreciated masterpiece Madame Bovary (also starring Huppert), meticulously expose the mechanisms of our entrapment.
03/01/07
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05/29/07
Spring has come early. Like a breath of unexpected warm air, French actress Isabelle Huppert lowers her guard.
01/04/07
The script is dapper and the story slick. But it is Huppert who gives it heft, style and star power.
12/14/07
Chabrol is intriguing and relevant, but the power and the comedy are dissipated.
12/14/07
The movie sags in the middle. Even an acrimonious split between the judge and her husband doesn't raise the emotional stakes because love appears to have gone out of this relationship long ago.
01/13/07
Top CriticVery little happens, and it has the look of a TV movie; yet the pace never seems to let up, the screen never seems empty, and its grip on your attention doesn't falter.
12/14/07
Chabrol observes the power games and intimidations with a matter-of-fact directness...
05/09/07
Draggy for long stretches, and never funny, Comedy of Power is a showcase -- as if she needed another -- for Huppert's chameleon qualities.
01/05/07
Top CriticOne cannot imagine a similarly sophisticated fictional treatment of the Enron case from the point of view of both the accusers and the accused; in Hollywood movies, there is only right and wrong. Chabrol’s Comedy of Power is much wiser than that.
01/31/07
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