Hors Satan (Outside Satan) 2013

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Hors Satan grapples with weighty themes in uncompromising fashion, offering a viewing experience that dares to be divisive and delivers.

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Movie Info

A drifter commits murder to protect a young woman from her tormentors.

Genre:

mystery and thriller, drama, crime
Original Language:

French (Canada)
Director:

Bruno Dumont
Producer:

Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat
Writer:

Bruno Dumont
Release Date (Theaters):

Jan 18, 2013 limited
Runtime:

1h 49m

Cast & Crew

David Dewaele
The Guy

Alexandra Lematre
The Girl

Bruno Dumont
Director

Bruno Dumont
Screenwriter

Bruno Dumont
Writer

Rachid Bouchareb
Producer

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Critic Reviews for Hors Satan (Outside Satan)

All Critics (44) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (9)

I find the movie mind-blowing, though it will likely alienate as many viewers as it impresses.

August 2, 2013 | Full Review…

Ben Sachs
Chicago Reader
It's difficult to feel transported by the impossible when the film's world is already so clearly governed by the arbitrary.

January 18, 2013 | Full Review…

Mark Asch
Film Comment Magazine
Inarticulate characters, long blank stares, forced camera angles and allegorical nonsense make up this pretentious study in quasi-religious ennui.

January 18, 2013 | Full Review…

Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure.

January 18, 2013 | Full Review…

Rob Nelson
Variety
Despite its pictorial intensity and the extremity of some of its scenes, the film proceeds in a mood of detachment, turning the suffering physical beings under its scrutiny into abstractions.

January 17, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/5

A.O. Scott
New York Times
Hors Satan is stark, strange and uncompromisingly personal. It's also vivid and unforgettable.

January 17, 2013 | Full Review…

Mark Jenkins
NPR
The implications linger long after the film is over, and while it occasionally seems to be doing more meandering than exploring, Dumont provides us with much to contemplate, a hallmark of any great film.

August 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row
Dumont's oblique style will frustrate many (which it certainly did when it premiered at Cannes), but if you embrace the mystery it makes for one of 2013's most fascinating films.

June 21, 2019 | Full Review…

C.J. Prince
Way Too Indie
This leisurely piece of acutely philosophical, existential cinema is reminiscent of the works of Tarkovsky, Bergman and Bresson, with Dumont yet again proving himself to be one of the great contemporary auteurs.

February 7, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Patrick Gamble
CineVue
A tour de force of concentric filmmaking that functions as a searing document on the dichotomy of beauty and savagery at the heart of a bleak French coastal community.

November 3, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

PJ Nabarro
Patrick Nabarro
A slow-moving yet compelling film.

May 14, 2018 | Full Review…

Shelagh Rowan-Legg
That Shelf
"Hors Satan" is a film about finding moral bearings in a world where the old rules have gone awry, but it's also an opportunity for some vicarious tourism in seductive scenery.

February 21, 2018 | Full Review…

Steve Erickson
Gay City News

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Audience Reviews for Hors Satan (Outside Satan)

Jan 23, 2013

An enigmatic young man (Dewaele), living in the marshes on the outskirts of a small town, appears to have healing powers. He is befriended by a young goth (Lematre), whose abusive father he shoots dead. As the film progresses, some fall victim to his murderous rampage while others are healed of their ills. Last year Dumont left his comfort zone with 'Hadewijch' a Paris set tale of religious fanaticism. It was his most mainstream work yet, following what was basically a straight narrative. His latest sees him return to his usual milieu of unattractive faces set against the grim backdrop of Northern France. It's self-indulgent garbage, consisting mainly of our protagonists walking across wind-swept fields. As is the norm for modern French cinema, it's filled with violence, though not as graphic as the work of most of Dumont's contemporaries. The movie is not only grim to look at, but rough on the ears too, thanks to Dumont's insistence on naturally recorded sound. Bizarrely, 'Hors Satan' shares a silly sight gag (a character pulled back comically by a wire after being shot) with 'Django Unchained'. It seems Tarantino saw this at Cannes last year.

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