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09/25/09
Calvaire (2005)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:3
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5.3/10
Theatrical Release:Aug 11, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: After a late-night gig, a lost lounge singer whose car has broken down stumbles into a terrible and secluded hotel where a series of atrocious--and increasingly violent--events take place.
Starring: Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Brigitte Lahaie, Philippe Nahon
Director: Fabrice Du Weltz
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Reviews for Calvaire
1 - 8 (sorted by date)
Top CriticDu Welz has definite visual-dramatic talent. (Calvaire was a Cannes festival pick.) But, like Norman Bates' car, he need to get pulled out of the swamp.
10/26/06
Top CriticWhat sells this movie is the realistic attention to detail and the bravura direction of Fabrice Du Welz, who draws a gut-wrenching performance from Lucas.
10/06/06
Top CriticBy the time it reaches its final act, the film rivals its American counterparts in intensity if not quite in explicit violence.
08/14/06
Top CriticDirector-co-writer Fabrice du Welz has taken a clichéd premise and infused it with a stylish perversity that should have horror fans squealing with delight.
08/12/06
Top CriticDirector Fabrice Du Welz doesn't reinvent the backwoods-freakshow formula, but there is something undeniably entertaining about violent psychos who are also committed art lovers.
08/12/06
Top CriticDirected by the newcomer Fabrice du Welz, the Belgian horror film Calvaire is pompous, but not without talent or shivers.
08/10/06
Top CriticThe very notion that movies about torture are considered 'horror,' and are more profitable now per foot of celluloid than any other type of independent film, is what's qualmy.
08/08/06
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