Beyond Hatred (2005)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:17
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
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
Reviews for Beyond Hatred
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 4/5 |
A documentary that celebrates a cathartic act of forgiveness and reconciliation by a grieving family whose gay son was brutally murdered. Full Review |
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Absorbingly covers the 2002 murder in Reims, France, of 29-year-old homosexual François Chenu. Full Review |
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5/6 |
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 |
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Visually, Beyond Hatred is precise, handsome -- even brilliant. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An example of a film whose style doesn’t merely suit its story but amplifies its meanings. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Through a series of interviews, we see the effect inexplicable hatred and murder has on an ordinary family. Full Review |
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4/5 |
It all has a cumulatively lulling effect, if a nightmare could ever be described so. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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 |
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While the documentary is well intended, that of parents' willingness to forgive three punks for murdering their son, the direction is uncreative and dull. Full Review |
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4/5 |
It's unlikely to appeal to your mainstream moviegoer, but this French documentary achieves remarkable things with a depressing subject. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Exemplifies the finest French traditions of dignified rationalism in the pursuit of understanding – in both personal and judicial contexts. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Movingly accompanies the family of Francois Chenu, a gay man murdered by three skinheads in 2002, down the road to forgiveness. Full Review |
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