The actors are more than equal to their eccentric roles, and the film is well worth seeing as a tantalizingly cerebral and unpredictable thriller.
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05/31/06
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Lemming (2006)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:33
Rotten:14
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: 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.
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... [More]
Starring: Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Dominik Moll
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Reviews for Lemming
Top Criticslick, funny and unsettling, slipping between psychological thriller, absurdist farce and ghost story into an unnerving dreamscape where psychosis meets metempsychosis.
07/10/07
Not really a thriller with a twist, but more an exciting, intelligent and suspenseful work with an overall quirkiness of subject matter and tone.
06/03/05
Creepy, surreal, and shocking, Lemming is a welcome antidote to the by-the-numbers summer fare clogging up our theaters.
05/19/06
When Alice keeps showing up in unexpected places, you don't need music to feel the tension she creates. In the battle of the Charlotte's for uber-spooky, Ms. Rampling wins hands down.
05/26/06
It's rare that a thriller holds us in such unawareness while still completely immersing us in story and character.
05/18/06
Moll is exquisitely attuned to the way sound rubs up against silence, dark against light, and his shading of psychology into the supernatural is deliciously mischievous.
05/25/06
Quietly eerie, hauntingly enigmatic psychological thriller...distinguished by Moll's cool, deliberate, almost antiseptic approach to what's actually rather pulpish material.
05/28/06
Even if this film promises more than it ultimately delivers, for arguably the most excruciating dining scene in cinema history, it's worth seeing.
05/05/06
Cuts through family emotions like a laser.
05/18/06
Cuts through family emotions like a laser.
05/18/06
Imagine a movie that combines the suspense of Hitchcock with the inscrutable sexuality of David Lynch's films and you're looking at French director Dominik Moll's Lemming.
05/19/06
Top CriticLemming exhibits the same crafty manipulation of audience fears and sympathies as Harry, as well as a keen ability to weave ambiguity and dark emotional subtext into tense, one-on-one encounters.
05/18/06
Top CriticSupremely creepy.
05/17/06
Moll makes movies that look like they're inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, but feel like Luis Buñuel working in high bourgeoisie-baiting mode.
05/17/06
Goes well with popcorn as well as champagne.
05/18/06
...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
07/22/06
A transparently formal film that plays along the narrative boundary between the psychological and the supernatural.
06/17/06
If Lemming doesn't necessarily work on an intellectual level, it sure does emotionally.
03/01/07
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.
09/01/06
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