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This taut and snappy French prison break thriller may be suspiciously implausible, but is held together by two fine central performances.
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Pour Elle is a smart, startling thriller; a perfect date movie for couples who like to smoke afterwards. Sep 18, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Pour Elle is a smart, startling thriller; a perfect date movie for couples who like to smoke afterwards.
Stephen Cole
Cavayé's film may not be the cleverest or most credible but it packs an effective punch. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Cavayé's film may not be the cleverest or most credible but it packs an effective punch.
Dave Calhoun
The fundamental silliness and improbability of everything is an insuperable problem. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The fundamental silliness and improbability of everything is an insuperable problem.
Peter Bradshaw
Propelled by tension, this gripping prison escape thriller takes the form of a beguiling morality tale as it raises unfathomable issues between right and wrong Oct 30, 2010 | Full Review…
Propelled by tension, this gripping prison escape thriller takes the form of a beguiling morality tale as it raises unfathomable issues between right and wrong
Louise Keller
Get out and see this magnificent thriller before the American remake (starring Russell Crowe, planned for release later this year) steals its thunder. Apr 27, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Get out and see this magnificent thriller before the American remake (starring Russell Crowe, planned for release later this year) steals its thunder.
Dominic Corry
The idea of an ordinary guy busting his wife out of prison sounds fairly silly, but you'll still be at the edge of your seat for most of Pour Elle. Sep 18, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/5
The idea of an ordinary guy busting his wife out of prison sounds fairly silly, but you'll still be at the edge of your seat for most of Pour Elle.
Liz Braun
This romance with a twist calls to mind the classy thrillers of the 70s. Jun 12, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This romance with a twist calls to mind the classy thrillers of the 70s.
Mickey McMonagle
This French thriller hurtles along with hardly a pause. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This French thriller hurtles along with hardly a pause.
Tim Robey
A taut, sexy, French thriller as long as youre happy to accept the ludicrous premise. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 4/5
A taut, sexy, French thriller as long as youre happy to accept the ludicrous premise.
Rosamund Witcher
An efficient, highly polished potboiler that rattles along without permitting the viewer any time to ponder the implausible plot. Jun 5, 2009 | Full Review…
An efficient, highly polished potboiler that rattles along without permitting the viewer any time to ponder the implausible plot.
Caroline Jowett
There's nothing exceptional about any of this but it is well made, decently acted (Kruger is clearly a star in the making) and rachets up the tension with some skill. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 3/5
There's nothing exceptional about any of this but it is well made, decently acted (Kruger is clearly a star in the making) and rachets up the tension with some skill.
Derek Malcolm
Engaging in places and interesting in its influences. Jun 5, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Engaging in places and interesting in its influences.
David Parkinson
A tense and well-directed French thriller with great performances by Lindon and Kruger in a plot that is pretty conventional but efficient as long as you are willing to accept its rather ludicrous premise.
Super Reviewer
Pour Elle is a well-constructed French thriller that's, at the same time, a pleasing, exciting actioner and a harrowing drama. Excellent cinematography by Alain Duplantier and outstanding work from leads Vincent Lindon and Diane Kruger make the experience all the more powerful. Remade recently as The Next Three Days with Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks.
I can't help wondering why Hollywood chose to remake this average thriller. Maybe running out of concepts? However, others might find this movie outstanding since I felt it was an ordinary one (in the near past, Winter's Bone and The Town were such movies which were great according to most people, but I found 'em mediocre. I lack the sense of appreciating certain qualities and my ignorance doesn't let me enjoy 'em as much as others can). Check it out; maybe you're blessed with the talent of discovering greatness in what I find to be quite an ordinary work.
A decent and well though out thriller with some great acting for the two leads.You can touch base here with the husband who is trying to coup with he's wife in prison and looking after he's young son while working and how despite for he's wife to come home. There is a some element of the TV series prison break but don't expect to much of that.The last half hour is the edge of your seat stuff and is very emotional at times.Some may find the end conclusion not that realistic but i found it to finish off the movie well.
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