Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 46 | Rotten: 14
Nuanced performances and an understated tone make The Housekeeper transcend its familiar premise.
Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 2
Nuanced performances and an understated tone make The Housekeeper transcend its familiar premise.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 170
One of France's most respected filmmakers, Claude Berri here brings viewers the story of Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) a middle-aged sound engineer whose wife has just left him. Living on his own for the first time in years, Jacques decides it's high time to clean up his life, literally and figuratively. In short order he hires Laura (Emilie Dequenne, a bright, vivacious young housekeeper, to bring order to his apartment. Laura's presence makes Jacques realize what has been missing from his life,
Jul 1, 2003 Wide
Nov 11, 2003
$0.2M
Palm Pictures
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (14) | DVD (4)
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton make the life of a middle-aged single person look highly desirable. The Housekeeper doesn't deal in such delusions.
None of this is profoundly new, but the delicacy of the telling is well worth the experience.
With their reverse-chemistry, [Bacri and Dequenne are] so good together -- hot and hilarious simultaneously -- that you'd think they'd been a team for ages.
Berri makes very personal works about men who learn something about themselves rather late in life -- something important -- and The Housekeeper continues to analyze this very worthy theme.
It's a slight film, well-acted by Bacri and Emilie Dequenne.
An acutely observed (and felt) essay on loneliness.
I wouldn't want this Housekeeper around my house, but your mileage may vary.
...possesses a shrewd understanding of the way human beings crave and pursue affection.
Dequenne fills the free-spirited role of Laura adequately enough. But there's precious little chemistry or understanding as to why she's attracted to Jacques...
...a refreshing alternative to the myriad of overcranked stories churned out by Hollywood.
It's as if it's being told to you by a distracted middle-aged narrator who's looking at a beautiful college girl out of the corner of his eye.
Sells sex like how ice cream is hawked on a hot July day at the beach.
A lovely film about sadness and mess, both inside and out, and how we are able to make ourselves feel better - temporarily
It is similar to the House Sitter, nothing special.
December 12, 2009
Super Reviewer
A sweet bit of fluff. Very entertaining. May not be great movie making, but the characters are fully believable and the story progresses smoothly. Bittersweet ending may be a comment on the inevitable breakup of such May-December romances. Solid cast, beautiful scenery, minimal dialogue. Very entertaining, but not
October 4, 2008Super Reviewer
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