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Lemming (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 33  Rotten:14 Average Rating: 6.7/10
 
Consensus: A superbly acted, creepy psychological thriller. A creepy psychological thriller, with superb performances and natural tension flowing from every frame, Lemming is a worthy successor to Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry. more
 
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Theatrical Release: May 19, 2006 Limited
Synopsis:
Alain Getty a young and brilliant engineer and his wife Benedicte, move to a new city following Alain's work transfer. They invite Alain's new boss and his wife to dinner one evening. However the difference between the two couples couldn't be more extreme : on one hand the young model couple, on... [More]
Alain Getty a young and brilliant engineer and his wife Benedicte, move to a new city following Alain's work transfer. They invite Alain's new boss and his wife to dinner one evening. However the difference between the two couples couldn't be more extreme : on one hand the young model couple, on the other, a pair corroded by hate and resentment. This disastrous dinner and the discovery of a mysterious dead rodent in their drain marks the descent into pandemonium of their once perfect life. -- © Strand Releasing [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling

Director: Dominik Moll

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Aug 15, 2006

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slick, funny and unsettling, slipping between psychological thriller, absurdist farce and ghost story into an unnerving dreamscape where psychosis meets metempsychosis.

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07/10/07 04:03 AM
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film
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If Lemming doesn't necessarily work on an intellectual level, it sure does emotionally.

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03/01/07 03:42 AM
Lewis Beale
Film Journal International
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A cross between a psychological and supernatural thriller, the film is intriguing, baffling and often confusing

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11/10/06 02:21 AM
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full review in Greek

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10/03/06 09:47 AM
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses
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09/28/06 03:16 AM
Sight and Sound
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If you're content to let dream logic take over, a lot can be gleaned from this odd, darkly funny meditation on life, death, love and revenge.

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09/01/06 03:50 PM
Marc Mohan
Oregonian
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Holds enough interest throughout to keep you entertained -- unless you're afraid of mice.

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08/25/06 10:12 PM
Marta Barber
Miami Herald
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08/12/06 05:32 AM
Peter Sobczynski
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… wears out its eerie mood with little to justify dragging it out for more than two hours.

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08/05/06 12:05 AM
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Dominik Moll's masterfully cast psychological thriller Lemming crackles with tension; its story keeps going off to unexpected places as we watch breathlessly, unable to look away.

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08/04/06 03:28 PM
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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This spooky, quasi-sci-fi, psychological thriller is unclear about what's real and what's not -- and not in any interesting way.

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08/04/06 03:25 PM
Bill Stamets
Chicago Sun-Times
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It's a tale of normality invaded by pathology. But here, the danger seems less plausible, the conflict more contrived.

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08/03/06 12:50 PM
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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...an intriguing head game from a talented director who needs to solidify his ideas with a bit more substance before he can become truly great. The cast clicks and collides in all its configurations

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07/22/06 12:20 PM
Laura Clifford
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Even by the strictest standards of odd French psychological drama, the behavior here is particularly opaque.

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07/21/06 06:43 PM
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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07/14/06 03:15 AM
Robin Clifford
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07/08/06 04:06 AM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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The high quality of [Moll's] actors does not relieve the story from seeming ambitiously fudge-brained.

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07/07/06 07:09 PM
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune
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06/24/06 04:05 AM
Time Out
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A transparently formal film that plays along the narrative boundary between the psychological and the supernatural.

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06/17/06 08:09 PM
Les Wright
culturevulture.net
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More disturbing than thrilling, Lemming, like Alice, overstays its welcome, but does get around to a finishing kick.

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06/16/06 07:03 PM
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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