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Thirst Street

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France, United States · 2018
1h 23m
Director Nathan Silver
Starring Lindsay Burdge, Damien Bonnard, Esther Garrel, Lola Bessis
Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller

Gina is an American flight attendant who is coming to terms with the recent suicide of her boyfriend. Yet, on a layover in Paris, she hits it off with a Parisian bartender named Jerome. Quickly, Gina finds herself attached to Jerome --- so much so, that she'll stop at nothing to be in his life.

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88

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

It’s a testament to Nathan Silver’s keen sense of observation that we don’t want the film to turn decisively into thriller terrain.

60

Screen International by David D'Arcy

Silver infuses some novelty into his Perils Of Pauline narrative, thanks to an extreme performance by Burdge, who plays the credulous lovesick naif to the hilt.

50

The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

While Burdge's dogged commitment to the role commands admiration, Gina's obtuse, masochistic behavior keeps us from investing in her as a character spiraling out of control.

83

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

Burdge holds the picture together, playing a character who walks a fine line between being sympathetically damaged and terrifyingly loony.

70

The New Yorker by Richard Brody

Burdge infuses her rigidly and scantly defined role with tremulous vulnerability, and Silver, aided by the splashy palette of Sean Price Williams’s cinematography, evokes derangement with a sardonic wink.

70

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

There’s not much in the way of bruising insight into the makeup of a deteriorating personality, but for a compact spin through well-trod fields of lustful, sad-mad blindness, “Thirst Street” has its share of disreputably perverse pleasures.

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The Playlist by Rodrigo Perez

Delightfully twisted, Thirst Street takes the ideas of desire, romantic longing and desperation — desperation as the world’s worst cologne — and bathes it in a sheen of frosty colors, genuine vulnerability and sardonic unkindness.

50

The New York Times by Teo Bugbee

Thematically shallow but stylistically rich, Thirst Street is best enjoyed with a hint of its heroine’s willfully superficial vision.

88

RogerEbert.com by Vikram Murthi

It’s a portrait of obsession that doesn’t caricaturize nor ridicule, an empathetic account of desire and its inherent limitations, as well as an opaque psychological study that falls in line with life’s myriad mysteries.

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