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A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter’s best friend.
Rating: 8.3/10
Stars: Kevin Spacey (Lester Burnham), Annette Bening (Carolyn Burnham), Thora Birch (Jane Burnham), Wes Bentley (Ricky Fitts)
20th Century Women (2017)
The story of a teenage boy, his mother,...
- 11/4/2023
- avclub.com
★★☆☆☆"This isn't Saving Private Ryan," a Russian soldier remarks to camera as one of his comrades films the aftermath of a battle and an ensuing massacre with a video camera. Yet, for all his latest offerings's fleeting moments of gritty realism, Oscar-winning The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius' The Search (2014) is a gruesomely sentimental piece, whose clumsiness and good intentions get in the way of drama itself. A loose remake of Fred Zinnemann's 1948 Academy Award-winning movie of the same name, the action has been moved to the Second Chechen War. Following the murder of his parents, nine-year-old Hadji (Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev) flees his home with a packed bag and his baby brother.
- 5/22/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Screenwriter: Michel Hazanavicius; Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev; Running time: 149 mins; Certificate: Tbc
Imagine the polar opposite of Michel Hazanavicius's sly, silent Oscar-winning gem The Artist, and you may well come up with something like this worthy but taxing follow-up. Set during the Second Chechen War in 1999, The Search paints a compelling portrait of a war-torn nation but labours its points too heavily, its gait stiff and lumbering where The Artist was joyfully fleet of foot.
One uniting factor between the two films is an effervescent performance from Bérénice Bejo, here playing a Chechnya-based Ngo worker named Carole, who spends her days writing detailed and largely ignored reports about the atrocities that surround her. Increasingly disheartened by how little impact her work is having on the United Nations' foreign affairs committee, and the general indifference of those around her, she's abruptly...
Imagine the polar opposite of Michel Hazanavicius's sly, silent Oscar-winning gem The Artist, and you may well come up with something like this worthy but taxing follow-up. Set during the Second Chechen War in 1999, The Search paints a compelling portrait of a war-torn nation but labours its points too heavily, its gait stiff and lumbering where The Artist was joyfully fleet of foot.
One uniting factor between the two films is an effervescent performance from Bérénice Bejo, here playing a Chechnya-based Ngo worker named Carole, who spends her days writing detailed and largely ignored reports about the atrocities that surround her. Increasingly disheartened by how little impact her work is having on the United Nations' foreign affairs committee, and the general indifference of those around her, she's abruptly...
- 5/22/2014
- Digital Spy
One of the high-profile premieres at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is The Search, an update of the classic Fred Zinnemann war film starring Montgomery Clift. Although it received mixed reviews, it could have been due to high expectations. The Search‘s director, Michel Hazanavicius, arrived on the world cinema plateau three years ago when The Artist debuted at Cannes. 10 months later, he had a Best Director Oscar in his hand.
While The Search did not receive much critical adoration, it still looks riveting enough to check out when it arrives in theatres later this year. The film stars Bérénice Bejo as an Ngo worker who forms a relationship with a young, displaced boy named Hadji (Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev) in Chechnya after Russian troops invaded the country in 1999. The film also has various subplots, one involving Hadji’s older sister, Raïssa, who is searching for him in the wartorn region.
While The Search did not receive much critical adoration, it still looks riveting enough to check out when it arrives in theatres later this year. The film stars Bérénice Bejo as an Ngo worker who forms a relationship with a young, displaced boy named Hadji (Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev) in Chechnya after Russian troops invaded the country in 1999. The film also has various subplots, one involving Hadji’s older sister, Raïssa, who is searching for him in the wartorn region.
- 5/21/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
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