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Steve + Sky (2004)

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Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5

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A pair of misfits on the wrong side of the law fall in love in this offbeat independent drama from Belgium. Steve (Titus De Voogdt) thinks he's having a good night when he meets a beautiful woman named Sky (Delfine Bafort) at a nightclub, but he forced to reconsider that opinion moments later when he manages to get busted for selling ecstasy. While in jail, Steve becomes friendly with Jean-Claude (Johan Heldenbergh), a philosophical sort who is confined to a wheelchair. After he's released,

Nov 22, 2005

Kinepolis Film Distribution

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (12) | DVD (3)

With its deliberately washed-out color palette, affectless dialogue and nearly event-free story line, Steve + Sky is a mere slip of a movie, a wan character study of people who add up to little more than a series of studied quirks.

July 8, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Felix Van Groeningen's low-budget romance is also sly -- if utterly superficial -- fun.

July 8, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
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Hugely tedious and mostly incomprehensible, Quentin Tarantino-wannabe Dutch director Felix van Groeningen's Steve + Sky is the kind of foreign movie that gives subtitles a bad name.

July 8, 2005 Comment
New York Post
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The sense of midnight-movie déja vu carries into the herky-jerk, non-linear screenplay and the fluorescent, life-is-a-sex-club-at-two-a.m. art design.

July 7, 2005 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
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As aimless as its protagonists, Steve + Sky proves equally inept at irreverence and profundity.

July 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
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...empty and ultimately pointless...

January 14, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

1 + 1 may equal two, but Steve + Sky doesn't add up quite as well.

September 2, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | Comment

A tedious movie about very unpleasant people.

August 28, 2005 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | Comment
One Guy's Opinion

Though undeniably gorgeous, there's considerably less to Van Groeningen's film than meets the eye.

July 8, 2005 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The film never decides where it wants to go.

June 25, 2005 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Comment
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

The completely random Steve + Sky competes with The Bridge of San Luis Rey for The Most Torturously Banal Cinematic Experience of 2005.

June 24, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
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Apparently you need to speak dutch to comprehend this movie. I agree that it gets boring at times, but in the end this is still a pretty good movie with a fantastic (Belgian) soundtrack (Beats of Love! Zanna!)

December 12, 2011

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