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Beyond Hatred (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 19

Fresh: 17

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7.3/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Jun 15, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: In this deeply moving, award-winning French documentary, a family reflects on the murder of their 29-year-old son and tries to move beyond feelings of hatred and revenge. --© First Run Features


Studio: First Run Features

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A documentary that celebrates a cathartic act of forgiveness and reconciliation by a grieving family whose gay son was brutally murdered.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
06/29/09
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/30/07
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

Absorbingly covers the 2002 murder in Reims, France, of 29-year-old homosexual François Chenu.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
06/25/07
David Noh
Film Journal International

Director Olivier Meyrou takes a potently oblique vérité approach, and his remarkable level of access reveals the limitations and equivocal mercies of human understanding with uncommon grace.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
06/16/07
Mark Holcomb
Time Out New York

Visually, Beyond Hatred is precise, handsome -- even brilliant.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
06/16/07
Noel Murray
AV Club

An example of a film whose style doesn’t merely suit its story but amplifies its meanings.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
06/15/07
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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Through a series of interviews, we see the effect inexplicable hatred and murder has on an ordinary family.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
06/15/07
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It all has a cumulatively lulling effect, if a nightmare could ever be described so.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
06/14/07
Chris Barsanti
Filmcritic.com

Paced like a drama, imbued with a spellbinding intimacy, and impressionistic in its visual portrayal of crime and punishment, it follows the 2002 murder of Francois Chenu, a gay man beaten by Nazi skinheads and left to drown in a nearby pond in Reims.

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06/14/07
John Anderson
Newsday
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Thankfully, Meyrou's intent isn't to launch a predictable crusade against homophobia itself, but to quietly understand the factors that molded this young trio into senseless killers.

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06/13/07
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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a contemplative, almost poetic examination of the proper workings of justice, and an exemplary depiction of a ruined family rebuilt on the foundations of its own humanistic values.

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06/13/07
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film

Olivier Meyrou may keep his distance from his subjects, but staying out of their way doesn't mean losing sight of their troubles.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
06/01/07
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

While the documentary is well intended, that of parents' willingness to forgive three punks for murdering their son, the direction is uncreative and dull.

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05/31/07
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

It's unlikely to appeal to your mainstream moviegoer, but this French documentary achieves remarkable things with a depressing subject.

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03/31/07
Steve Rose
Guardian [UK]

Meyrou’s suitably sombre film leaves you with a sense of enormous respect for a couple refusing to be consumed by hatred, prepared instead to offer their forgiveness.

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03/27/07
Tom Dawson
Total Film

This deeply moving account of a French family's response to a needless tragedy is all the more effective as it eschews the sensationalism of so much modern reportage.

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03/27/07
Patrick Peters
Empire Magazine

The settings are mundane, but the exchanges are emotionally raw and so neatly convey both the drama and the grinding daily routine of having to cope with tragedy.

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03/20/07
Stella Papamichael
BBC

Exemplifies the finest French traditions of dignified rationalism in the pursuit of understanding – in both personal and judicial contexts.

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10/30/06
Ben Walters
Time Out

Au-delà de la haine is perhaps best used as a case study in psychology schools, because it is too convoluted to really make much sense for the general public.

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04/25/06
Boyd van Hoeij
european-films.net

Movingly accompanies the family of Francois Chenu, a gay man murdered by three skinheads in 2002, down the road to forgiveness.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
04/25/06
Leslie Felperin
Variety
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