Alice et Martin (Alice and Martin) (1998)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 43
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 17
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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 4
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In this romantic French drama, auteur Andre Techine offers an intense, intimate look inside the complex relationship between two emotionally dysfunctional people. Neither Alice (Juliette Binoche) nor Martin (Alexis Loret) seem emotionally healthy enough to sustain a relationship, but somehow they manage to stay together amidst their many personal problems. The two met in Paris, where Martin fled after escaping the oppression of his recently deceased tyrannical father. Once in the City of Light,
Jul 21, 2000 Limited
Jan 23, 2001
USA Films
Cast
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Juliette Binoche
Alice -
Alexis Loret
Martin -
Carmen Maura
Jeanine -
Mathieu Amalric
Benjamin -
Pierre Maguelon
Victor Savignac -
Jeremy Kreikenmeyer
Martin as a Boy -
Marthe Villalonga
Mrs. Savignac -
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All Critics (46) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (17)
An involving love story between two emotionally damaged outsiders.
Top CriticThe sheer neurotic intensity of Techine's characters -- characteristically stretching both backward and forward in time, as in a Faulkner novel--holds one throughout, as does Techine's masterful direction and many of the other performances.
Alice and Martin is not to be missed, particularly in this endless lull of summer.
For all the increasing sophistication of Téchiné's technique, the emotions he deals with are basic, and all the more powerful for it.
Techine keeps a tight rein on his actors' dramatics.
Alice et Martin has its faults, but there's some real meat here, in the performances and direction.
Binoche and newcomer Loret give committed performances, but Alice and Martin's romance is never completely convincing.
This staid, somber film is heartening proof that what doesn't kill us might indeed make us stronger.
Andre Téchiné extracts superb performances and finds drama in the everyday moments of human interaction.
An excellent cast goes far to redeem >Alice and Martin.
Binoche's character is sketchily drawn. Although she gives an admirable, unshowy performance, her role is underwritten, with the script frequently using her as the engine that propels the plot.
The movie is long, but doesn't feel that way, and despite a dearth of interesting visuals after the first 20 minutes, it makes for a welcome change of pace from Hollywood
Its mystery resonates long after the film ends.
Falls just shy of greatness.
Director André Téchiné here eschews that French lightness and opts instead for what is apparently supposed to pass for psychological profundity.
This long-winded, uninteresting, uninvolving and tedious French pic is another example of a filmmaker (Andre Techine) who's too involved with one of his cast members
Audience Reviews for Alice et Martin (Alice and Martin)
[b]Goodbye Mr Chips[/b]......Intolerably soft and wimpy film about the life of a school teacher. I hope no one takes it the wrong way, but I could swear every single person in that school was gay. Nevertheless, I guess all the well-meaningness won me over eventually.
[b]Bringing up Baby[/b]......Pretty nice little comedy by Howard Hawks with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. Nothing spectacular, but reasonably enjoyable.
[b]Tess[/b]....By Roman Polanski, suffers a bad lack of interesting characters or story. Tess is the stereotypical poor shy girl trying to find some love and her place in the 19th century world. Oddly, the film looks visually like something made in the 90s. But that's pretty much all the merit for it that I can think of.
[b]Sexy Boys[/b]...(not in database:4/10). I guess the french have teenagers too. A very american-style superficial teen-comedy revolving around sexual experiences.
And finally a completely one-sided but extremely interesting documentary about recent argentinan political history. And another interesting documentary about Martin Luther King. I don't remember the title of either one, but I'll rate them both as 7.
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Foreign Titles
- Alice and Martin (Alice et Martin) (DE)
- Alice and Martin (Alice et Martin) (UK)
