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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2013)

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Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1

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Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET opens with a who's-who of French acting royalty being summoned to the reading of a late playwright's last will and testament. There, the playwright (Denis Podalydès) appears on a TV screen from beyond the grave and asks his erstwhile collaborators to evaluate a recording of an experimental theater company performing his Eurydice-a play they themselves all appeared in over the years. But as the video unspools, instead

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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (3)

It's, like, totally, like, "meta." Metaphorical, metaphysical. It's also pretty amusing.

March 17, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Alain Resnais reflects on some lifelong themes, and though this drama is characteristically eerie, it also conveys a calm that's rare in his work.

March 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Digital technology meets lyrical drama and classical myth in this puckishly daring, intricately original work of docu-theatre from the ninety-year-old director Alain Resnais.

September 24, 2012 Full Review Source: New Yorker
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Though Resnais' gamble seems to have failed, it's encouraging to see a director on the brink of 90 still willing to experiment in a way most helmers half his age wouldn't dare.

May 23, 2012 Full Review Source: Variety
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Whether Resnais will complete another movie remains to be seen, but if this were by any chance to be his swansong, with its distant and resonant echoes of 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' (made 63 years earlier), it would certainly be a lovely one.

May 23, 2012 Full Review Source: Time Out
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This reflection on the past, love and death through the prism of layers of theatrical endeavor is both serious and frisky, engaging on a refined level but frustratingly limited in its complexity and depth.

May 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter
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While the meta-theatrical staging is artful and impeccable and the performances (pulled from a cast of actors Resnais has used over several decades) are superb, it's not the easiest film to sit through.

February 21, 2013 Full Review Source: Oregonian
Oregonian

The film works best when it focuses viewer attention most acutely on the story, deflecting it away from the director's manipulations.

September 23, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Inventive New Wave director Resnais, now 90, continues to explore issues of memory, time, theater, and history in this aestheticaly rigorous feature, reuniting some of his most reliable actors.

August 18, 2012 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

Not since Altman went out with A Prairie Home Companion has a director fashioned such a natural swan song.

May 23, 2012 Full Review Source: AV Club
AV Club

A film of bristling intelligence that will delight lovers of cerebral upmarket cinema.

May 23, 2012 Full Review Source: Screen International
Screen International

The film is more than the play. Most of all, it gifts us with its actors, the most memorable of whom are Mathieu Amalric and Michel Piccoli.

May 23, 2012 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound
Sight and Sound

My word, does it feel like an unholy slog.

May 22, 2012 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph

Despite its moments of charm and caprice, the film is prolix, inert, indulgent and often just plain dull.

May 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

Audience Reviews for You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

The theatricalization of Cinema as intended by Resnais may be absorbing at first while exploring a touching sense of nostalgia from the characters/actors. But this scene play is not compelling enough, though, to deserve two hours, becoming artificial and vapid after a while.
September 30, 2012
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A fine and interesting experiment that often succeeds as entertainment as well. Not clear through, though. There is a cost of enduring some less than scintillating segments in order to enjoy the ones that sparkle.
February 16, 2013
Michael H.
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Foreign Titles

  • You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Vous n'avez encore rien vu) (DE)
  • You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (UK)
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