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Gilles Marchand, who co-wrote the scripts for Human Resources and With a Friend Like Harry..., makes his directorial debut with Who Killed Bambi?, which he co-wrote with Vincent Dietschy. Isabelle (Sophie Quinton) is a student nurse. One night while leaving the hospital, she hears a ringing in her ear and loses her balance, passing out. When she awakens, the handsome young Dr. Philipp (Laurent Lucas of With a Friend Like Harry...) is standing over her. Amused by the young woman's seeming
Unrated, 2 hr. 6 min.
Apr 14, 2004 Wide
Apr 5, 2005
Strand Releasing
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (12) | DVD (4)
Who Killed Bambi? does for doctors what Psycho did for showers.
A long and uneventful snooze.
Marchand capably builds suspense, thanks to a twisty script and nervy performances by Lucas and Quinton.
So skillful at sustaining a chilly antiseptic atmosphere in which death stalks every gleaming corridor that it comes as a sharp disappointment to find its hygienic imagery wasted on a clunking cat-and-mouse game.
A sustained atmosphere of bleached-out horror.
Tries like mad to get under the viewer's skin in its portrayal of gross medical malfescence, but never gets beyond recycling stale genre tricks and obvious characters.
The melodrama acts as an anaesthetic, as it's hard to stay awake while it operates merely as a gruesome style over substance film.
A sleek and cool thriller that never quite boils over into all-out suspense, which feels enticing but also a bit dull and overlong.
Its lack of sense is exceeded only by the absence of chills.
Competent but ultimately disappointing.
Who Killed Bambi? is fun to watch, and newcomer Quinton has big, beautiful eyes, but the movie's contrived plot, forced conclusion and sentimental denouement rob it of real suspense and meaning.
you eventually get that it's supposed to be suspenseful, but it's ... near impossible to actually feel it.
The forced parallel with the Disney classic proves silly and pretentious, but the dull characters and lethal plot contrivances are what really do Bambi in.
Kept me squirming in my seat for its entire running time.
A cool, dry spin on the hospital horror story, steeps the classic woman-in-peril scenario in allusions to Disney's uber-innocent.
This film is more successful in mood and setting (white hallways with stylized lighting and shadows gives a disorientating sense of dread and tension) than in the conventional screenplay.
A quiet, sleek but undeniably dry French thriller. There's plenty of potential here, but a ton of the plot just feels like dead air and almost none of the movie is memorable. The cinematography is unexceptional, none of the performances stand out and the characters are uninspired.
February 19, 2007Super Reviewer
An interesting journey which, unfortunately, ends on an unconvincing note. Perhaps it should have ended in that mysterious forest pit? I think yes.
June 4, 2008
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