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A beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
100
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.
88
The film is surprisingly satisfying and meaningful.
30
The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett
Surrealism is one thing, but The Intruder appears so ill defined and random that it ends up looking simply inept.
100
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
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.
80
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The best way to enjoy The Intruder is to surrender to its poetry without demanding cut-and-dried explanations.
63
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.
100
Enigmatic as it is, The Intruder dares us to see movies as visual marvels tethered to humanity.