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France, Italy · 2011
1h 51m
Director André Téchiné
Starring André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Mélanie Thierry, Adriana Asti
Genre Drama
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Francis is a crime writer looking for somewhere quiet to work on his new novel. Judith, a real estate agent, tells him about a location near Venice. 18 months later, the two are married. But Francis is not sure he can trust Judith in this drama based on the novel by the same name.
It's some kind of monster of romanticized antiromanticism, filleting and exalting its characters, cheating and rewarding its breathless audience. The closest the film gets to a thesis is this shoulder-shrug torpedo: "People do things like that without knowing why."
The layered, character-driven drama may subvert expectations of a sunny Venetian noir, but observes its five principal characters with a probing, egalitarian eye.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Téchiné is a restless director, a fastidious storyteller who is not interested in what less adventurous movies have to say about human relationships. He wants to dig deeper, even if the results aren't always clear.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
In his elliptical and somewhat loopy drama about the slipperiness of love at any age, French filmmaker André Téchiné uses the sight of scudding motorboats on the waterways around workaday Venice as a visual reinforcement of time as a river.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Unforgivable isn't one of Mr. Téchiné's greatest achievements, but it's engrossing even when its increasingly populated story falters, tripped up by unpersuasive actions, connections and details.
That seems to be one of the main theses of Unforgivable: that nothing is as dramatic as it appears, and presuming otherwise means risking unnecessary trouble and pain.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
Among other things, Unforgivable is a free-floating meditation on the distresses and exhilarations of being a parent.
While Unforgivable stays true to this approach, its disparate souls feel too scattershot to be interwoven into a meaningful narrative tapestry.
Everyone is equal parts emotional victim and villain in Unforgivable, an elegantly rambling Franco-Italian affair about the ways we do each other wrong while trying to do each other right.
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