A Few Days in September (2006)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:8
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5/10
Synopsis: Nick Nolte, Juliet Binoche, and John Turturro star in this tightly wound drama about a French agent who struggles to find a missing C.I.A. member who has crucial information on the fate of the globe.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Sara Forestier
Director: Santiago Amigorena
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Reviews for A Few Days in September
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A spy thriller with a difference or two Full Review |
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3/5 |
Slick, fitfully effervescent, pre-9/11 thriller aims to inject some cross-cultural poetry into the world of political espionage. Full Review |
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No film starring Juliette Binoche can be totally negligible, but this comes close. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Here is a film as rum and tangential as the theories themselves, a pleasingly off-kilter noir that casts Juliette Binoche as a cigarillo-smoking spymistress who lights out for Venice in the first days of September 2001. Full Review |
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Feeling more like a few months in the cinema, this ploddy, pretentious Euro-pudding is made just about bearable thanks to its cast. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Sacrificing entertainment at the altar of arty lyricism, Amigorena's snail-paced drama is dull, misjudged and a criminal waste of a cracking premise. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Buckling under the weight of its own hubris, the potentially scandalous premise ends up feeling like a Dan Brown knock-off. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A Few Days in September is that rarest and most peculiar of creatures: a French arthouse action thriller. Full Review |
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Duff addition to the ever-expanding canon of 9/11 movies. Full Review |
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2/6 |
An intriguing set-up spoiled by a clever-clever script, Christophe Beaucarne’s migraine-inducing cinematography and performances which are decent, but never gel. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Amigorena has an eye for off-kilter camerawork and attractively shoots Paris and Venice as Binoche and the two twenty-somethings flee Turturro, but its existentialist musings and breezy road movie charm are no replacement for espionage movie brains. Full Review |
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3/5 |
An inventive idea is let down by a weak script. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
A lot of dumb things have been said about 9/11. This might be the dumbest yet. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
A slow-burning thriller with an intriguing mystery at its centre, this film's tone is reminiscent of The Third Man, although updated to make some extremely provocative suggestions. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Generally interesting but only sporadically compelling... Full Review |
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Walks the fine line between thriller and thriller satire, sometimes taking small detours left and right of the line before rejoining the ranks. It is a tough balancing act but Amigorena mostly pulls it off. Full Review |
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Savvy thriller for conspiracy buffs with star performances by Binoche and Turturro. Full Review |
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