Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The story is dramatic and Béart gives one of her best performances, even if Téchiné's style has its usual sense of distance.
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France, United Kingdom · 2003
1h 35m
Director André Téchiné
Starring Emmanuelle Béart, Gaspard Ulliel, Clémence Meyer, Samuel Labarthe
Genre Drama, Romance
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Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly becomes dependent on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The story is dramatic and Béart gives one of her best performances, even if Téchiné's style has its usual sense of distance.
A taut, suspenseful, linear approach, and a trio of excellent performances.
As with Téchiné's best work, Strayed is a peculiar, lingering blend of robustness and delicacy--a movie with hardly a single wasted frame, incongruous word, or false gesture.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Beautifully shot, and graced with another winning performance from the lovely Beart, Strayed nevertheless fails because the relationship between Odile and Yvan never makes us feel the sexual passion it implies.
Long expert at unforgettable characterizations, Techine turns his talents toward creating an evocative sense of time and mood.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
André Téchiné's beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed drama Strayed has less to do with the events and moral choices of the era that continue to shape French identity than with the timeless psychological effects of finding oneself unmoored from the familiar.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer
Téchiné gets deep inside the dread and exhilaration of people who have lost their bearings so suddenly they don't even have the luxury of grief.
Elegant and understated.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
It begins with a montage of devastating black-and-white news clips interwoven with flashes of the flight of a terrified young widow and her two children. After that, the movie softens somewhat, but it never succumbs to sentimentality.
The result is, alas, competent but unexceptional.
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