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Carnage (2003)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:27
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.9/10
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... [More]
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Angela Molina, Lio, Lucia Sanchez
Director: Delphine Gleize
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Reviews for Carnage
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.
11/13/03
Though Ms. Gleize's intellectual ambitions are large and sometimes vague, her cinematic self-confidence is as bracing as her eye is meticulous.
09/04/03
Top CriticA truly remarkable and compassionate debut from a savvy, self-confident filmmaker. No bull.
09/10/03
I must admit, I've never seen a film quite like this one.
09/26/03
Top CriticGleize 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.
01/08/04
Funny, sad, and tinged with magic realism, this ambitious comedy-drama is as original as it is nimbly directed.
09/04/03
A vitally assured first feature.
11/13/03
Visually a stunner; less successful on a metaphoric level.
08/22/03
For those who are patient, there are quite a few things to admire, including the performances and the film's ambitious, audacious storytelling conceits.
12/19/03
Similar to the recent Dog Days and Divine Intervention, Carnage fares much better than both.
10/20/03
Funny, ironic (in the best sense of the word), dramatic, sweet and metaphorical, Carnage never lets go of its witty mix.
10/17/03
The film becomes a complex tissue of intersecting lives, but Gleize handles each developing story with amazing ease, and the fabulist touches are the icing on a very tasty cake.
09/04/03
[Director] Gleize has nevertheless written an imaginative and loopy script where the twisting storylines, each with its own distinct tone, eventually connect.
04/09/04
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.
01/08/04
With Carnage, a pungent tale of love and sacrifice, French filmmaker Delphine Gleize has fashioned a modest epic about our ridiculous human comedy.
11/13/03
Despite its fleshy title, Gleize's film is a feast for the mind.
01/16/04
Delphine Gleize achieves a mastery of the visual, the metaphoric, and the dramatic that few other veteran filmmakers could pull off.
08/08/04
Sophisticated, coolly imaginative, and genre-carefree.
09/02/03
Top CriticA gorgeously morbid meditation on the interconnectivity of life (and death).
10/17/03
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