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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.
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Duras's soul-stripping words are here, but little thought appears to have gone into translating them for cinema. May 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Duras's soul-stripping words are here, but little thought appears to have gone into translating them for cinema.
Cath Clarke
Buoyed by an astonishing central turn by Mélanie Thierry. May 22, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Buoyed by an astonishing central turn by Mélanie Thierry.
David Jenkins
Pain, it turns out, can be unbearably dull. December 17, 2018 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Pain, it turns out, can be unbearably dull.
Tom Long
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. August 23, 2018 | Full Review…
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.
Robert Abele
"Memoir of War" is a movie that dreadfully empties a vast experience, that reduces colossal events to dramatic simplicities and trivializing shortcuts. August 17, 2018 | Full Review…
"Memoir of War" is a movie that dreadfully empties a vast experience, that reduces colossal events to dramatic simplicities and trivializing shortcuts.
Richard Brody
One of the best films I've seen about the ways in which grief can pull a person in both directions simultaneously. August 17, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
One of the best films I've seen about the ways in which grief can pull a person in both directions simultaneously.
Matt Fagerholm
The film signals the arrival of another major French star actress. Memoir of War is a great film. July 17, 2020 | Full Review…
The film signals the arrival of another major French star actress. Memoir of War is a great film.
Dustin Chang
An overly simple retelling of a complex story. May 29, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
An overly simple retelling of a complex story.
Roe McDermott
La Douleur? Oui. Et les longueurs! May 28, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
La Douleur? Oui. Et les longueurs!
Tara Brady
The fact the film failed to convert any of its eight César nominations says much, but this still represents a bold bid to recreate a highly distinctive recollection of a unique time. May 26, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The fact the film failed to convert any of its eight César nominations says much, but this still represents a bold bid to recreate a highly distinctive recollection of a unique time.
David Parkinson
Inevitably, the novel's subtleties are lost in translation, and Emmanuel Finkiel's film drags at times, but Ms. Thierry's portrayal of the alternately tender and ruthless writer is fascinating. May 25, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Inevitably, the novel's subtleties are lost in translation, and Emmanuel Finkiel's film drags at times, but Ms. Thierry's portrayal of the alternately tender and ruthless writer is fascinating.
Paul Whitington
Memoir of War is composed beautifully through highly theatrical camera angles, capturing, for example, reflections in mirrors to brilliant effect. May 22, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Memoir of War is composed beautifully through highly theatrical camera angles, capturing, for example, reflections in mirrors to brilliant effect.
Paddy Kehoe
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