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07/13/02
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Les Destinees (2002)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:30
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: The long, epic Les Destinees is too slow and tedious to justify its running time.
Theatrical Release:Apr 5, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: From Olivier Assayas, the director of IRMA VEP and L'EAU FROIDE, comes LES DESTINÉES, a tender and sophisticated period piece starring Emmanuelle Béart and Charles Berling. Based on the novel by... [More]
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier
Director: Olivier Assayas
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08/02/02
Despite an off-putting premise, this is a sumptuous drama boasting substance as well as spectacle.
03/03/08
You are aware of the richness and intricacy of Mr. Assayas's conception, and the breakneck enthusiasm with which he has plunged into his nation's past.
04/04/02
Top CriticMr. Berling's male protagonist concludes that love is all that matters, but it is said more than it's felt, and told more than it's shown.
05/09/02
Top CriticIt's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out, like character development and coherence.
07/26/02
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue
06/06/02
One of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time.
05/17/02
An exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter.
10/22/02
Assayas's modern approach to historic material breathes some life back into the period drama.
04/03/02
No review available.
10/10/05
It's definitely a step in the right direction.
05/30/01
A massive undertaking and an accomplished piece of filmmaking in a solid tradition of intelligent, meticulous literary adaptations.
03/03/08
The filmmaker's heart is in the right place...
03/03/03
No number of fantastic sets, extras, costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story.
07/26/02
Top CriticBerling and Bart ... continue to impress, and Isabelle Huppert ... again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters.
12/11/01
Death awaits us all, but Assayas, with a humanist's generosity, offers his characters the greatest gift art can give: immortality.
09/09/02
No review available.
08/20/05
Gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid...a curiously constricted epic.
09/13/02
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