Les égarés (Strayed) Reviews
L.A. Weekly
All you can do is watch the slight story sputter, and try to figure out whether Bčart's formidable lips were made by God or man.
Film4
Strayed proves to be as lost and elusive as its fugitive characters.
Film-Forward.com
The title could refer not only to the lead character, but also to the film itself.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
SPLICEDWire
The director never goes for the obvious....But at some point "Strayed" begins to derail. It could be during a gratuitous, ill-fitting, highly unlikely sex scene.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Top CriticFails because the relationship between Odile and Yvan never makes us feel the sexual passion it implies.
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| Original Score: 2/4
It's incredible how little actually happens considering all the possibilities.
| Original Score: C
A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving.
Boulder Weekly
..excels in period atmosphere and photography...But there's also a lack of drive and urgency in Techine's direction, which become most obvious in the muffled ending.
A touch of ambiguity never hurts, but too few dots connect in this story, and we're left with a portrait that only can be admired from a distance.
Dallas Observer
Yep, they hang out. And hang out some more. Really, that's about all they do. Kinda boring, right?
You never really give a damn about these four lost souls. Despite its technical skills, Strayed proves emotionally hollow.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Filmcritic.com
lacks the kind of compassion that is needed for this kind of story
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| Original Score: 3/5
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The drama here is rather trite and never adds up to anything you can put your finger on.
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| Original Score: C
Movie Habit
Strayed feels like a chapter in a much longer work.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Begins and ends with facts of war, but it is really a film about the nature of male and female, about middle-class values and those who cannot afford them, about how helpless we can be when the net of society is broken.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Arizona Daily Star
those in the mood for a patient, self-assured tapestry of changing relationships will be rewarded.
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| Original Score: 3/4
eFilmCritic.com
A smart and thoughtful wartime drama that contains yet another superlative performance from the lovely Emmanuelle Beart.
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| Original Score: 4/5
St. Paul Pioneer Press
What's interesting about the reserved, delicate Strayed is that it's satisfied to imply its themes rather than spell them out for us.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Princeton Town Topics
Reminiscent of such desert island classics as Swept Away and Lord of the Flies, this film is at heart, a microscopic suspense drama quite independent of the war which brought its unfortunate characters together.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
