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06/02/07
Poison Friends (2007)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:21
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A sharp examination of university life, Poison Friends is a psychological drama with a wry edge.
Theatrical Release:Apr 27, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: When college friends Eloj and Alexandre meet charismatic, brilliant thinker Andre, their lives begin to change. Wooed by his attention, the young students lose outside perspective and put... [More]
Starring: Malik Zidi, Thomas Blanchard, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Bonnaffe
Director: Emmanuel Bourdieu
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07/12/07
Has a degree of energy, an appetite for strong feelings and big ideas, notably missing in American movies about the young and overeducated, which tend to specialize in mumbled ironies and tiny epiphanies.
04/27/07
Top CriticAndré’s character, even in the depths of his humiliation, remains remarkably dignified and non-self-pitying. That gives this academic melodrama an unexpected depth.
04/11/07
Top CriticStudent friendships, success and failure make for absorbing entertainment.
05/20/06
Turgid ivory-tower drama.
04/28/07
Art-house fans young and old will revel in the film's evocation of urban student life and certain archetypes -- good and ornery -- who grace or despoil the groves of academe.
04/23/07
A solid script, but it's really the performance by Vinçon that's likely to leave a lasting impression on the viewer.
04/24/07
A richly developed French film about university life, power, deceit and mentoring that presents quite a moral wallop.
10/14/06
A cerebral film nicely demonstrating what happens when insecure students follow a magnetic leader who turns out to be a liar.
04/10/07
The movie is largely unclassifiable -- at once a psychological study, an exceedingly dry comedy, and a moral tale in which stories are purloined and frauds perpetrated.
04/24/07
Top CriticIf you don't take anything Andre says seriously, there is a wicked sense of fun about it, and you may even see a little of yourself in one of the characters.
04/27/07
Top CriticPromoted as an intellectual suspense thriller, Emmanuel Bourdieu's second feature film is a chilling plunge into the dark pools of group think and a scalding examination of the vulnerability of the unformed identity.
04/26/07
Top CriticIn this observant psychological drama with the energy of a thriller, there's no blood (except for maybe a paper cut) or weapons, but audible gasps will not be out of place.
04/27/07
Poison Friends is at once a sly satire on the pretensions and aspirations of academia and an intellectual suspense-thriller that builds and builds but never loses credibility.
05/24/07
Top CriticThe movie seems an act of score-settling by someone who got singed by a critic. Fair enough, and André's deviousness makes the film slyly credible, too.
04/27/07
Top CriticThis clever little film explodes conceptions and presents a good argument for the ends justifying the means.
07/04/07
Pic is deft, entertaining and, in its reverence for name-dropping scholarship and the paths by which the chosen few make a name for themselves, thoroughly Parisian.
05/20/06
While the young people chatter about life and literature with sometimes overbearing self-satisfaction, the astute filmmaker observes their pretentious gum-flapping with a mixture of amusement, compassion, and wised-up rue.
05/09/07
Top CriticSly, subtle and very French psychological drama.
04/27/07
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