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Come Undone

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Come Undone (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 31

Fresh: 24

Rotten:7

Average Rating: 6.4/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Jun 29, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: Come Undone begins during one hot, French summer in a sleepy, picturesque town near the coast of Nantes and ends there 18 months later. As Mathieu (Jérémie Elkaïm, of François Ozon's short film... Come Undone begins during one hot, French summer in a sleepy, picturesque town near the coast of Nantes and ends there 18 months later. As Mathieu (Jérémie Elkaïm, of François Ozon's short film Bed Scenes), a quiet 18-year-old boy, spends yet another holiday with his depressed mother, nosy aunt and clingy sister, he meets a cocksure young man, Cédric (Stéphane Rideau of Wild Reeds). Cédric catches Mathieu's eye while selling candy at the local seaside amusement park. The beautiful, more experienced Cédric begins to pursue Mathieu, and they are soon meeting for clandestine, evening encounters in the dunes. The young men open up to their respective families about the nature of their involvement, and a fragile happiness sets in. Sébastien Lifshitz's intimate direction evokes hot summer nights in France most of us wish we'd had. Like a dream, Come Undone languidly flows back and forth between the past and the present, often asking us to fill the deliberate jumps in time. The audience is allowed to steal very private glances at Mathieu's memories and snapshots of his life,including his loss of innocence. These moments let us experience what happens to Mathieu after he gives in to Cédric's pleas for a life together. He learns to live independently for the first time, far removed from the people whose love he's always taken for granted. -- © 2001 Picture This! Entertainment [More]

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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
This is London

The sex scenes are bluntly beautiful, the boys are natural, superb actors, and you'll find yourself more than ready to embrace "Come Undone" as one of the great tales of amour.

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05/08/03
Brandon Judell
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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

It is heartfelt, and is full of intense feelings and insights into love.

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02/19/02
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Hopefully, even those who fail to accept the director's stylistic experiments will still appreciate the beautifully acted, disarming picture of youth and love.

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02/07/02
Edward Johnson-Ott
NUVO Newsweekly

If you found films like But I'm a Cheerleader or Edge of Seventeen profoundly unimaginative, Sebastien Lifshitz, making his directorial debut, has something to show you.

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12/14/01
Kevin John Bozelka
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

If you leave the theater for even a minute, you'll be lost, given the way Come Undone jumps around.

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12/13/01
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St. Paul Pioneer Press
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12/10/01
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Come Undone is the coming-of-age romance French-style, with emotions nuanced, effects subtle. But it's also achingly slow, at times bleak and, in the end, frustratingly and regrettably, rather pointless.

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Loren King
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11/07/01
Barbara Ellen
Times [UK]

While Come Undone has some explicit material, what makes it a mature and special work is its embrace of the knotty and unfamiliar.

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11/01/01
Patrick Z. McGavin
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10/29/01
Guardian [UK]

A highly credible, if rather unexceptional, look at the many insecurities and occasional joys of young love.

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10/29/01
Michael Thomson
BBC

A grey, sullen treatment of an increasingly hackneyed subject, marked by opaque characterizations and a fractured, disjointed narrative style.

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10/24/01
Frank Swietek
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Lifshitz has made a serious, at times quite genuine coming-out drama.

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10/19/01
David Elliott
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