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Lemming (2006)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:8
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.3/10
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
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Top CriticThis spooky, quasi-sci-fi, psychological thriller is unclear about what's real and what's not -- and not in any interesting way.
08/04/06
Top CriticIt's a tale of normality invaded by pathology. But here, the danger seems less plausible, the conflict more contrived.
08/03/06
Top CriticEven by the strictest standards of odd French psychological drama, the behavior here is particularly opaque.
07/21/06
Top CriticMore disturbing than thrilling, Lemming, like Alice, overstays its welcome, but does get around to a finishing kick.
06/16/06
Top CriticThe movie, which has the slightly glum perversity of early Chabrol, is a dream of betrayal.
06/07/06
Top CriticThe theme is hidden desire, but the trip feels like a stale museum tour of the usual psychodrama tropes -- voyeurism, ghosts, sexual fantasy, dream imagery, murder -- without the goose-bumps-on-your-brain payoff.
06/03/06
Top CriticThe actors are more than equal to their eccentric roles, and the film is well worth seeing as a tantalizingly cerebral and unpredictable thriller.
05/31/06
Top CriticDominik Moll imbues the first half of his thriller with inklings of strangeness that are at once sinister and quietly comical. But there is, in the end, less to this film than meets the eye.
05/27/06
Top CriticThe narrative surrealism can be annoying, but it's never less than riveting, and the acting is superb.
05/25/06
Top CriticA unique, absurdist ghost story.
05/19/06
Top CriticPerhaps a tad too long, Lemming is nevertheless nightmarish entertainment.
05/19/06
Top CriticImagine 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 CriticIn the end, Moll's film may be too neat (and too lengthy), but the wallop of disquiet is delicious.
05/17/06
Top CriticAlas, the film relies too much on its shocks and fails to make the supernatural element at all convincing.
05/12/05
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