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.
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05/24/07
Poison Friends (2007)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:11
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.9/10
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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Reviews for Poison Friends
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Top CriticIt's intellectual without being dry, dramatic without bombast, smart without posturing.
05/24/07
Top CriticWhile 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 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 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 CriticHas 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 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 CriticThe 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 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 CriticPic 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
Top CriticStudent friendships, success and failure make for absorbing entertainment.
05/20/06
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