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Carnage (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 35

Fresh: 27

Rotten:8

Average Rating: 6.9/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Sep 5, 2003 Limited

Synopsis: Delphine Gleize's startling first feature, CARNAGE, adroitly turns random moments into pieces of a tight-fitting puzzle, creating a thick multidimensional plot filled with unexpected parallels and... Delphine Gleize's startling first feature, CARNAGE, adroitly turns random moments into pieces of a tight-fitting puzzle, creating a thick multidimensional plot filled with unexpected parallels and delicately unfolding secrets. The film centers on the connection between a gored bullfighter and a young girl who watches the incident on television. The bull is destroyed, dismembered, and dispersed to markets in Spain, France, and Belgium. While the young girl, Winnie (Raphaelle Molinier), grapples with her understanding of death and personal identity, her parents buy a bull bone for their dog at a gourmet market. The salesclerk, Carlotta (Chiara Mastroianni), is a struggling actor trying to experience rebirth through aquatic exercises and primal screaming. Elsewhere, the university researcher Jacques (Jacques Gamblin), who has retained the eyes of the bull for his studies, finds himself emotionally distanced from his pregnant wife Betty (Lio). His brother, a taxidermist named Luc (Bernard Sens), covets the bull's horns which their mother (Esther Gorintin) gave him as a gift. In CARNAGE, the brave Gleize is on a complex cinematic storytelling mission. The subject matter is at times tragic, but moments of quirky comic relief show the rich contrasts in this discourse of life, love, and survival. [More]

Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Angela Molina, Lio, Lucia Sanchez

Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Angela Molina, Lio, Lucia Sanchez, Esther Gorintin, Maryline Even, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Feodor Atkine

Director: Delphine Gleize

Director: Delphine Gleize
Screenwriter: Delphine Gleize
Producer: Jerome Dopffer
Composer: Eric Neveux
Studio: Wellspring

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04/01/06
Empire Magazine

Delphine Gleize achieves a mastery of the visual, the metaphoric, and the dramatic that few other veteran filmmakers could pull off.

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08/08/04
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

[Director] Gleize has nevertheless written an imaginative and loopy script where the twisting storylines, each with its own distinct tone, eventually connect.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
04/09/04
Kent Turner
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03/16/04
Tom Dawson
BBC

there are far better movies that don't try your patience like Carnage does

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03/10/04
Christopher Null
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02/02/04
Paul Sherman
Boston Herald

Patience will reward those who don't mind non-linear storytelling, but some of the stories aren't worth the wait.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
01/30/04
Michele Kenner
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Feels indulgent, far too long and, yes, very French ... but while it lasts you can't take your eyes off the screen!

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01/23/04
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Despite its fleshy title, Gleize's film is a feast for the mind.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
01/16/04
Marta Barber
Miami Herald

Gleize is a smart director with a fresh eye, and she finds inventive ways to underscore her theme, which is that good things and bad things happen to most of us in roughly equal measure but that, somehow, we keep plugging away.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
01/08/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Carnage has some narrative messiness. But the beautiful thing here - besides Gleize's fabulous eye - is that not a single one of her solutions for the healing that takes place in her characters' lives is predictable.

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01/08/04
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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The sort of film whose makers would be pleased to hear it called 'unclassifiable.' A more accurate description is 'unfathomable.'

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01/08/04
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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For those who are patient, there are quite a few things to admire, including the performances and the film's ambitious, audacious storytelling conceits.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
12/19/03
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Whimsical irony is matched with arresting visuals throughout Carnage, and those moments carry the day even if you don't buy Gleize's everything-is-connected bull.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
12/19/03
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
12/11/03
Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune
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The film eventually becomes tedious, but there are enough flashes of moral intelligence and cinematic inspiration here to make one eagerly anticipate Gleize's sophomore effort.

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11/14/03
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

It's very European, and extremely intriguing.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
11/14/03
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

Whereas most movies about serendipity and degrees of human separation usually fail by trying to pick profundity from, well, dry bones, here, director Gleize knows that to dig too deeply only distracts one's attention from the strange comedy of life.

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11/13/03
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