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The Intruder(L'Intrus)

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France · 2005
2h 10m
Director Claire Denis
Starring Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Béatrice Dalle, Florence Loiret Caille
Genre Drama

Louis Trebor, a man living far away from society in the safety of his Alpine home, leaves behind his dogs and his estranged son to go to Korea to get a black market heart transplant. He then travels to Tahiti in hopes of finding the son he has never met.

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A beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys.

100

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

The Intruder, is a decisive breakthrough--her (Claire Denis) most poetic and primal film to date, as thrilling as it is initially baffling.

75

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

The title might as well refer to the viewer who tags along on Louis' often-silent journey from solitude to some tentative form of family. Some will consider the experience insurmountably frustrating; others will find it exhilarating.

100

L.A. Weekly by Scott Foundas

For Denis’ film - which may be her most intricately constructed and intensely beautiful to date - is one that transcends words and stories, a movie to be felt rather than rationalized.

80

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

Exhilarating and exhausting, the kind of picture you don't bounce back from immediately. Yet its elusiveness is the very source of its poetic energy.

63

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

So, should you see The Intruder? Yes -- but only if you're willing to ignore bothersome concerns about narrative and let the poetic images take over your mind.

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