Lemming (2006)
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling
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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.
If Lemming doesn't necessarily work on an intellectual level, it sure does emotionally.
A cross between a psychological and supernatural thriller, the film is intriguing, baffling and often confusing
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.
Holds enough interest throughout to keep you entertained -- unless you're afraid of mice.
… wears out its eerie mood with little to justify dragging it out for more than two hours.
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.
This spooky, quasi-sci-fi, psychological thriller is unclear about what's real and what's not -- and not in any interesting way.
It's a tale of normality invaded by pathology. But here, the danger seems less plausible, the conflict more contrived.
...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
Even by the strictest standards of odd French psychological drama, the behavior here is particularly opaque.
The high quality of [Moll's] actors does not relieve the story from seeming ambitiously fudge-brained.
A transparently formal film that plays along the narrative boundary between the psychological and the supernatural.
More disturbing than thrilling, Lemming, like Alice, overstays its welcome, but does get around to a finishing kick.
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