80
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It is a haunting portrait of emotional undeadness.
Hannah
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- Italy,
- France,
- Belgium
- 2017
- · 95m
Director
Andrea Pallaoro
Cast
Charlotte Rampling,
André Wilms,
Luca Avallone,
Stéphanie Van Vyve,
Jean-Michel Balthazar,
Simon Bisschop
Genre
Drama
Left alone grappling with the consequences of her husband’s imprisonment, Hannah begins to unravel. Through the exploration of her fractured sense of identity and loss of self-control, the film investigates modern day alienation, the struggle to connect, and the dividing lines between individual identity, personal relationships, and societal pressures.
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What are critics saying?
80
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Rigorously structured and glacially paced, this sophomore feature from Andrea Pallaoro (after his 2015 family tragedy, “Medeas”) is a minimalist portrait of brutal isolation and extreme emotional anguish.
75
Washington Post
The veteran English actress, 72, a onetime femme fatale who has matured into a peerless performer, gives a first-rate lesson in the art of acting, as a woman crumbling under duress after her husband is incarcerated. And yet the Belgian-set drama, by Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, could also be called self-indulgent, plodding and minimalist, in a big way.
75
Washington Post by Susan Wloszczyna
The veteran English actress, 72, a onetime femme fatale who has matured into a peerless performer, gives a first-rate lesson in the art of acting, as a woman crumbling under duress after her husband is incarcerated. And yet the Belgian-set drama, by Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, could also be called self-indulgent, plodding and minimalist, in a big way.
70
Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden
Rampling, a Modigliani of long-limbed litheness with a face built for sorrow, inhabits the role and the visual compositions so deeply that the character resonates long after the film has ended.
70
Variety by Guy Lodge
This is an impressively rigorous exercise, in which the director’s sober formalism finds a kindred spirit in his leading lady’s studied, secretive restraint.
63
Observer by Rex Reed
There’s nothing else to watch or care about in the entire film anyway. Once again, a great actress is on her own.
50
Arizona Republic by Barbara VanDenburgh
Andrea Pallaoro’s frigid portrait of a woman in crisis is more a calculated exercise in formalism than an achievement in storytelling. His well-composed images of loneliness are cerebrally satisfying but lack emotional heft.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
Charlotte Rampling gives an emotionally rigorous display of bruising internalization, without an ounce of vanity, in the title role of Hannah. But although the lead performance commands admiration, the overall impact of this unrelentingly dour account of a woman struggling to carry on with her life after her husband's imprisonment is dulled by its distancing approach.
38
RogerEbert.com by Godfrey Cheshire
There is a real seed of dramatic possibility in Hannah, but Pallaoro smothers it beneath the lacquer of the film’s fastidiously mannered minimalism.
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