Lourdes Reviews
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One of the most observant -- and enigmatic -- movies of the year.
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| Original Score: 3/4
In a film rich with provocative questions, Hausner audaciously examines the ambivalent nature of miracles. Are they gifts from a loving God or random occurrences, bereft of any moral or meaning?
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| Original Score: 3/4
A provocative and surprising pleasure that may persuade even the most hardened rationalists to reconsider what religion means as a sanctity to those who have few other choices in life.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Beautifully led by birdlike Sylvie Testud as an ailing young woman in a wheelchair, every character (pilgrim and helper alike) exhibits a soul. And shaped with confident talent by the Austrian filmmaker, every serenely composed shot matters.
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| Original Score: A
A paralyzed young woman with MS stands up and walks in Lourdes, but it'll be a real miracle if anyone manages to stay awake throughout this extravagantly dull film.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Adventurous filmgoers will be rewarded by its unusually open-ended storyline.
Jessica Hausner's superbly dry drama, a standout at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, builds in deliberate steps, befitting the thriller it secretly is.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Jessica Hausner, an Austrian working here in French, wants to explore the mysteries of life, not its certainties.
| Original Score: 3.5/5
Lourdes ultimately eschews rigorous religious inquiry to study the mechanics of envy and frustrated desire.
