A lovely film about sadness and mess, both inside and out, and how we are able to make ourselves feel better – temporarily
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11/16/03
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
Basic ingredients are in under-supply: characterization and believability.
07/10/03
It's a slight film, well-acted by Bacri and Emilie Dequenne.
09/18/03
Top Critic...possesses a shrewd understanding of the way human beings crave and pursue affection.
01/27/05
An acutely observed (and felt) essay on loneliness.
08/28/03
Top CriticThere isn't much to The Housekeeper, really, but it plumbs depths of male unease that louder and less wise movies strain to reach.
07/25/03
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03/05/05
The Housekeeper is wise and subtle in the way it presents its older man. A less interesting movie would make him lustful and self-deceiving, a man who believes his is the secret of eternal youth and virility.
08/01/03
Top CriticIts love story engages both the heart and the head.
07/31/03
[Claude Berri's] special touch is clearly present in this film.
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
Transforms a stock male-fantasy situation into something tender and believable...
09/08/03
Age suffers, youth recovers--in a well-crafted albeit predictable film by Claude Berri.
07/01/03
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
Everyone in The Housekeeper has an emotional shield, and director Berri penetrates that shield with warmth, intelligence and a genuine compassion for human tomfoolery.
08/15/03
Top CriticIt strains credulity that these two would get together, and even though the couple's incompatibility is a key point of the story, that fact makes it impossible to invest in the relationship or have any sympathy for the characters.
08/17/03
Both Bacri and Dequenne are surprisingly effective in their performances and manage to sell us on their chemistry.
10/24/03
Cleaning your place was never this much fun.
07/22/03
Two very fine performances.
08/11/03
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