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07/21/05
The Housekeeper (2003)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:19
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
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
Top CriticJack Nicholson and Diane Keaton make the life of a middle-aged single person look highly desirable. The Housekeeper doesn't deal in such delusions.
12/19/03
Top CriticNone of this is profoundly new, but the delicacy of the telling is well worth the experience.
12/19/03
Top CriticIt's a slight film, well-acted by Bacri and Emilie Dequenne.
09/18/03
Top CriticAn acutely observed (and felt) essay on loneliness.
08/28/03
Top CriticLike Chabrol reconfigured into a mildly droll midlife-crisis tease.
08/15/03
Top CriticEveryone 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 CriticTwo very fine performances.
08/11/03
Top CriticA movie that feels enjoyable, relaxed and anything but housework.
08/01/03
Top CriticThe 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 CriticEngrossing and a soupçon sad.
08/01/03
Top CriticManages, despite its middle-aged male-fantasy scenario, to steer clear of the predictable -- or, at the very least, give the predictable some real human dimension.
07/31/03
Top CriticIts love story engages both the heart and the head.
07/31/03
Top CriticIt's refreshing to see a film about nothing but human emotion.
07/25/03
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
Top CriticUnlike real, first-time lovers -- who usually engage in all sorts of tell-me-everything-about- you conversations -- Laura and Jacques seem to find each other blandly uninteresting.
07/11/03
Top CriticThe film is extremely well-acted.
07/11/03
Top CriticAs a slice of life, Housekeeper is as thin they come.
07/11/03
Top CriticTasty French souffle.
07/10/03
Top CriticThis easy-to-take movie gets everything just right and is a pleasure to watch.
07/10/03
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