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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 30 Jun 2016

Veteran French director Anne Fontaine approaches a spiritually and emotionally complex real-life slice of history with deftness and understated…

Review of The Innocents (1961)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Jun 2016

A gripping psychological drama based on events more than half a century old, it has inescapable contemporary echoes…

Review of The Innocents (1961)

By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 29 Jun 2016

The actors bring emotional authenticity to the aftermath of trauma, but despite that and the handsome cinematography, there is also a persistent…

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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jun 2016

Where Ida takes a drearier, more realistic approach to the story, The Innocents, despite its dark focus on a group of women living in fear…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jun 2016

Like many historical dramas, unfortunately, this one depicts gripping events without bothering to craft a coherent viewpoint that lends them meaning…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 27 Jun 2016

Anne Fontaine's film is an allegory for women's condition more generally, in times of war or peace…

Review of The Innocents (1961)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 10 May 2016

Hope and horror are commingled to quietly moving effect in Agnus Dei, a restrained but cumulatively powerful French-Polish drama about the…

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By Jordan Raup (239) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 10 May 2016

Despite an ending that is far too obvious and tidy, Agnus Dei is a moving drama about the struggle to keep one’s faith in the most difficult…

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By Anthony Kaufman (83) for Screen International (2,241) on 10 May 2016

Agnus Dei’s filmmakers ultimately embrace the sin of over-simplification. And audiences, grabbing for their tissues, will likely forgive them of it…

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By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 May 2016

Directed by French director Anne Fontaine (Two Mothers/Adore, Coco Before Channel), this is another gorgeously appointed but also slightly…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 May 2016

Director Anne Fontaine’s film is based on actual events and grapples with thorny questions that plague even the most zealous during times…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 07 Oct 2014

Clayton brilliantly uses slow dissolves to create ghostly superimpositions, and the harmless squeals of bath-time fun, or squeakings of a pencil,…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 07 Oct 2014

The film thrives on unsettling images of overgrowth and rot, such as the dead flower that drops at Kerr’s touch, and the beetle that crawls…

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By Kevin Harley (322) for Total Film (3,532) on 07 Oct 2014

The heart-stopping climax offers no answers: just the lingering unease of uncertainty…

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By Michael Scheinfeld (22) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 07 Oct 2014

The Innocents manipulates the viewer's imagination as few films can, with Kerr and Redgrave doing a masterful job of creating a sense of repressed…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Oct 2014

Clayton's filmmaking, mustering frisson by both candle and blazing daylight, could serve as an object lesson in its genre…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 07 Oct 2014

Catches an eerie, spine-chilling mood right at the start and never lets up on its grim, evil theme…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 07 Oct 2014

The film’s symbolism is never subtle, but that doesn’t make it any less effective…

Review of The Innocents (1961)

By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 Oct 2014

Mr…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 31 Aug 2006

Clayton lacks the Jamesian temper, and his film is finally more indecisive than ambiguous. Too much Freud and too little thought…

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