Cleaning your place was never this much fun.
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07/22/03
The Housekeeper (2003)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:45
Rotten:14
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Nuanced performances and an understated tone make The Housekeeper transcend its familiar premise.
Theatrical Release:Jul 11, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $245,540
Synopsis: Claude Berri (JEAN DE FLORETTE, LUCIE AUBRAC) delivers yet another laudable entry on love and loneliness in UNE FEMME DE MENAGE. The story, written with efficiency and compassion, follows Jacques... [More]
Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon, Jacques Frantz
Director: Claude Berri
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Reviews for The Housekeeper
Full of canny observations about love and loss and aging which Berri delivers with wit, wisdom, and a bit of rue as well.
07/10/03
Despite Berri's deft touch, the story is a little too slight to fill out the movie's running time, but engaging performances from Dequenne and Bacri make up the difference.
07/11/03
An engagingly acted film about cross-generational romance and the need for basic human bonds that overcomes an abrupt, almost laughably, stereotypically European ending.
07/14/03
Whenever a new character is introduced, the movie heads off in a new direction, and while each direction is a surprise, each ends up being an important part of this portrait of a confused, ultimately curious man.
08/08/03
...a refreshing alternative to the myriad of overcranked stories churned out by Hollywood.
12/21/03
[Claude Berri's] special touch is clearly present in this film.
07/10/03
Sells sex like how ice cream is hawked on a hot July day at the beach.
12/02/03
A movie that feels enjoyable, relaxed and anything but housework.
08/01/03
Top CriticAn acutely observed (and felt) essay on loneliness.
08/28/03
Top CriticNo review available.
08/13/05
You could make a broad comedy from this situation, but director Claude Berri chose the small, quiet route.
08/01/03
The Housekeeper provides a nuanced and inventive anatomy of urban loneliness and the surprising way out that can arrive unannounced, just when we least expect it.
07/10/03
A gentle, bittersweet romantic comedy.
07/10/03
Top CriticEngrossing and a soupçon sad.
08/01/03
Top CriticAge suffers, youth recovers--in a well-crafted albeit predictable film by Claude Berri.
07/01/03
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.
11/07/03
Both Bacri and Dequenne are surprisingly effective in their performances and manage to sell us on their chemistry.
10/24/03
Berri plays both the bedroom scenes and the beach scenes with the same tender touch, so that the contentment and loneliness, the pleasure and pain, both hit us at the same rate.
07/25/03
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.
10/17/03
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