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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
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Delphine Gleize achieves a mastery of the visual, the metaphoric, and the dramatic that few other veteran filmmakers could pull off. Full Review |
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3/5 |
[Director] Gleize has nevertheless written an imaginative and loopy script where the twisting storylines, each with its own distinct tone, eventually connect. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
there are far better movies that don't try your patience like Carnage does Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Patience will reward those who don't mind non-linear storytelling, but some of the stories aren't worth the wait. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Feels indulgent, far too long and, yes, very French ... but while it lasts you can't take your eyes off the screen! Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Despite its fleshy title, Gleize's film is a feast for the mind. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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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. Full Review |
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The sort of film whose makers would be pleased to hear it called 'unclassifiable.' A more accurate description is 'unfathomable.' Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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 |
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3/4 |
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 |
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Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
It's very European, and extremely intriguing. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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