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Critics Consensus: Memoir of War benefits from a magnetic performance by Mélanie Thierry, whose work is often enough to counter some of the film's fundamental flaws.
Critic Consensus: Memoir of War benefits from a magnetic performance by Mélanie Thierry, whose work is often enough to counter some of the film's fundamental flaws.
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (12)
Pain, it turns out, can be unbearably dull.
Resolutely somber, and self-aware about its deliberately tight and opaque visual style, it's presentational more than lived, a series of filmmaking choices instead of something deeply felt and conveyed.
"Memoir of War" is a movie that dreadfully empties a vast experience, that reduces colossal events to dramatic simplicities and trivializing shortcuts.
One of the best films I've seen about the ways in which grief can pull a person in both directions simultaneously.
Marguerite is played by Mélanie Thierry, and the performance is a devastating one: unease and confusion with nowhere to direct it.
Ms. Thierry plays Marguerite with an understatement that can be enigmatic, seductive, or deliberately confounding. The picture as a whole doesn't do justice to her committed performance.
A somewhat lifeless film saved by handsome production values and a strong central performance.
Thierry's stoic performance and Finkiel's evocation of atmosphere envelop the viewer in a fever dream of dread.
Memoir of War is at its best when it focuses on the complex inner life of its compelling protagonist, but even she can't prevent this film from feeling unnecessarily drawn-out by the time it reaches its conclusion.
Though writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel has made a valiant effort, 'Memoir of War'...is dedicated and respectful but rather chilly and remote.
Despite its pedigree, Memoir of War does not guarantee safe passage.
Marguerite Duras's semifictionalized memoir of psychological survival and emotional endurance in Paris during the Nazi occupation makes an uneasy, listless transition to the screen.
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