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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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Reviews for Les Destinees
Mr. 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
No number of fantastic sets, extras, costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story.
07/26/02
Top CriticGorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid...a curiously constricted epic.
09/13/02
Ambitious, efficient, sensitive, but a little disappointing.
06/24/06
Enduring love but exhausting cinema.
03/26/03
A film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time, and this isn't.
05/30/01
Godawful boring slug of a movie.
06/19/02
Opens at a funeral, ends on the protagonist's death bed and doesn't get much livelier in the three hours in between.
09/13/02
It's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes ... finally seem so impersonal or even shallow.
04/05/02
Top CriticAn empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal.
11/20/02
Despite the opulent lushness of every scene, the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings.
04/05/02
The movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that's shapeless and uninflected.
06/14/02
Top CriticThe movie turns out to be [Assayas'] homage to the Gallic 'tradition of quality,' in all its fusty squareness.
04/11/02
Top CriticIt gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions.
06/07/01
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