What emerges is imperfect but shows a bravura talent with an engagingly elliptical storytelling style.
Automne (2004)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:5
Rotten:16
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: McGee aims for glossy noir and ends up with a pretty, but lifeless, heap of pretentious banality.
Theatrical Release:Jun 9, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: A French film with an American director, AUTOMNE centers around the reunion of three women and a man who were childhood friends but drifted apart as adults. All three have slipped into the seedier... A French film with an American director, AUTOMNE centers around the reunion of three women and a man who were childhood friends but drifted apart as adults. All three have slipped into the seedier side of life, and are pursuing criminal careers, leading to some fascinating interplay between the three characters. [More]
Starring: Michel Aumont, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dinara Drukarova, Samuel Dupuy
Starring: Michel Aumont, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dinara Drukarova, Samuel Dupuy, Irčne Jacob, Laurent Lucas
Director: Ra'Up McGee
Director: Ra'Up McGee
Studio: Truly Indie
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Reviews for Automne
Autumn is a nearly perfect satire of the pretentious French thriller. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't know it.
It's hard enough to care about why these people are striking fashion-model poses and shooting at each other without having to think about their poor, bruised inner children.
Pic overall has the look, depth and emotional impact of a glossy magazine fashion spread.
McGee may well have strong films in him, but this one feels pretentious and gassy.
The cross-cultural backstory behind Autumn, a new French-language feature written, produced and directed by Ra'up McGee, is ultimately more interesting than what's seen onscreen.
The film looks great, but there's nothing under the high-gloss veneer.
If you're in that select demographic of moviegoers who lose sleep over whether a synthesis of Kyzysztof Kieslowski and Quentin Tarantino could ever be forged, you can relax at last.
Unfortunately, the story of Ra'up McGee's pigheaded perseverance is a better story than the one he filmed.
Though Lucas and Jacob are lovely actors, you are not likely to care whose toes end up wearing tags.
Autumn is as dry and lifeless as the leaves that fall to the ground in its opening images.
An unsavory pastiche of the familiar and the overdone, flavored with faux-pungent, existential, interminable dialogue.
The cast is uniformly effective, from veteran Aumont down to relative newcomer Droukarova, who gives a muted but compelling performance.
The seamy underbelly of Paris seen through romantic American eyes keeps the noir alive.
[The] film begins with too much pretension but matures into a slinky, sexy piece of mood music.
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