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France · 2001
1h 49m
Director Coline Serreau
Starring Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Rachida Brakni, Line Renaud
Genre Drama
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A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The drama's elegant structure, which takes you through a series of surprises so smoothly and logically that it might be over before you realize you've seen one of the new year's most intriguing, intelligent movies.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Despite a brief, unnecessary foray into melodrama -- stands alone as compelling entertainment.
The best that can be said of the men in Coline Serreau's Chaos is that some of them are pimps.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Mixes satire and suspense in unexpected ways in a film that is as darkly amusing as it is bitterly critical of bourgeois society's indifference to suffering.
A breathlessly involving tale of urban indifference, rampant hypocrisy and the difference a little human decency can make, superbly played pic is a black comedy that's frequently funny but never frivolous.
Never stops having its dark fun.
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
There's a carnivalesque medley of subplots scampering about the screen, but Serreau manages to emerge triumphant with all the threads nimbly stitched together.
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
One heck of a tale of deliciously unladylike payback.
The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
The picture holds us, not only through our wonderment at the mixture but through Serreau's dexterity and her casting.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
There is not a decent (or even half-decent) male character to be found in Chaos, a gripping feminist fable with a savage comic edge.
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