A Tout de Suite (2005)
70 %
Reviews Counted: 43 Fresh: 30 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Consensus:
A mesmerizing performance by ingenue Isild Le Besco makes this stylish French drama a taut, compelling escapade.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 29, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: A stylish, erotically charged thriller, À Tout de Suite is the highly anticipated new film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot (Sade, A Single Girl). Based on actual events, it tells the story of sexy, free-spirited Lili, a Parisian art student who falls for a charismatic bank... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Islid Le Besco, Ouassini Embarek, Laurence Cordier, Nicolas Duvauchelle
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Should deliver to that core of filmgoers who respond to anything French, edgy, well-reviewed and well-done.
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03/01/07
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10/30/06
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Despite the film's infectious style and the powerful charisma of its leading performers, it doesn't really catch fire.
05/26/06
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02/09/06
A Tout de Suite contains a sufficient amount of action and suspense but it’s also quite the literary picture.
12/06/05
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09/26/05
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If you're not careful, A Tout De Suite--Benoit Jacquot's ode to the French New Wave, infused with his love of American crime classics 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Badlands'--will fool you.
08/25/05
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The film's retro appeal includes black-and-white cinematography and a Truffaut-esque fascination for parallels between the characters' wild flight and filmmaking itself as a wide-eyed, open-ended experience.
08/19/05
Crazy things certainly happen to Lili, but Le Besco drifts through most of the proceedings as though she were following a checklist: long face (done), three-way with lithe Athenians (yup), the occasional suggestion of zombietude (mission accomplished).
08/19/05
Top Critic
... a painful and poignant film at once empathetic and critical, more soberly unnerving than exciting, but never less than compelling.
08/18/05
Opaque stares and pregnant pauses can only pull so much weight, no matter how snazzy the packaging.
08/18/05
A Tout de Suite is a sometimes-interesting film, particularly its first 30 minutes, but runs on long after the intrigue ends...
08/12/05
Benoit Jacquot's drama creates a sense of dislocation with its impossible-to- predict-what-will- happen-next plot, jumpy black-and-white cinematography, elusive characters and casual approach to the time in which it's set.
08/04/05
This is a film of disturbing emotional power and frank sexuality that is photographed in sensuous black and white.
08/04/05
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Thoroughly assured as a piece of art, and bears rewards worth enduring stretches of palled uneventfulness.
07/31/05
Jacquot has really excelled at recreating another era - the movie feels like a lost New Wave film just coming to light.
07/11/05
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Whether focused on Lili's face or standing back to take in her long limbs, Caroline Champetier's enthralling black-and-white camerawork is at once nimble and evocative.
07/01/05
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