Calvaire (2005)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:7
Rotten:14
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
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 3/5 |
a surrealist fairy tale bringing gothic glee to its meditations on performance and passion. Full Review |
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A glossy rehash that's far less interesting and frightening than the classics upon which it's unimaginatively modeled. Full Review |
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3/5 |
if you've got a black sense of humor you might just find yourself laughing down the vomit. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Du 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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
What 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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Not so much scary as just plain brutal. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
So dead-set on being disturbing that it ends up tripping over its own hobbled feet and evoking fewer gasps than curdled little giggles. Full Review |
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1.9/5 |
Completely gratuitous. Don't bother. Full Review |
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By the time it reaches its final act, the film rivals its American counterparts in intensity if not quite in explicit violence. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Naming one character after cult director Paul Bartel is obvious enough, but why saddle the other with the moniker of a notorious '70s porn star? Full Review |
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3/4 |
Director-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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Director 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. Full Review |
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6/10 |
Often more haunting and disturbing for what you don't see than for what you do. Full Review |
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0.5/5 |
Directed by the newcomer Fabrice du Welz, the Belgian horror film Calvaire is pompous, but not without talent or shivers.
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The 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. Full Review |
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While The Ordeal can't pass itself off as an art-house horror about the nature of love among the cannibals, it sometimes has a sick sexual frisson that resonates. Full Review |
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