What emerges is imperfect but shows a bravura talent with an engagingly elliptical storytelling style.
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02/07/07
Automne (2004)
24 %
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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... [More]
Starring: Michel Aumont, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Dinara Drukarova, Samuel Dupuy
Director: Ra'Up McGee
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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.
06/24/06
Top CriticA colossal misfire, a tedious film noir wannabe.
06/23/06
Top CriticIt'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.
06/22/06
Hmm, has somebody seen Breathless? I guess so.
06/22/06
Top CriticPic overall has the look, depth and emotional impact of a glossy magazine fashion spread.
06/22/06
Top CriticMcGee may well have strong films in him, but this one feels pretentious and gassy.
06/22/06
Top CriticThe 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.
06/13/06
Top CriticI'm not sure this is a parody or not.
06/09/06
The film looks great, but there's nothing under the high-gloss veneer.
06/09/06
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.
06/09/06
Top CriticUnfortunately, the story of Ra'up McGee's pigheaded perseverance is a better story than the one he filmed.
06/09/06
Top CriticSlow, pretentious and proudly inscrutable.
06/09/06
Top CriticThough Lucas and Jacob are lovely actors, you are not likely to care whose toes end up wearing tags.
06/09/06
Top CriticAutumn is as dry and lifeless as the leaves that fall to the ground in its opening images.
06/09/06
Top CriticAn unsavory pastiche of the familiar and the overdone, flavored with faux-pungent, existential, interminable dialogue.
06/09/06
The cast is uniformly effective, from veteran Aumont down to relative newcomer Droukarova, who gives a muted but compelling performance.
06/08/06
Elegantly stylized but emotionally strained.
06/08/06
The seamy underbelly of Paris seen through romantic American eyes keeps the noir alive.
06/07/06
[The] film begins with too much pretension but matures into a slinky, sexy piece of mood music.
06/06/06
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