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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seanax.com (387) on 10 Aug 2010

(Gondry's) playfulness keeps the film buoyant even as it delves into the thickets of emotional complications of family lives…

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By Matt S (1,994) on 09 Aug 2010

This is a slow-paced documentary that essentially makes you feel like a fly on the wall with acclaimed director Michel Gondry's family…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 May 2010

Gondry captures the leafy radiance of the countryside, and he makes judicious use of special-effects whimsies…

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By Jacob H (499) on 19 Apr 2010

THE THORN IN THE HEART (L'Epine dans le Coeur) is a personal look at the life of Gondry family matriarch, Michel's aunt Suzette Gondry, and…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 Apr 2010

Anyone can make a crappy home movie, but it takes an especially self-important one to think anyone other than their own family wants to watch it…

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By Jack G (1,167) on 07 Apr 2010

No, it's not one of Gondry's best, but so what…

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By Annlee Ellingson (847) for Moving Pictures Magazine (113) on 04 Apr 2010

Thorn is Gondry's most personal film, so personal as to be indulgent…

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By Jennifer Merin (124) for About.com (1,470) on 02 Apr 2010

Like a guest invited to a family reunion, you feel a bit uncomfortable, question why you're there and wonder how long the event will last…

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By Mike Hale (131) for New York Times (5,786) on 01 Apr 2010

You might think that the small-scale, straightforward style and intimate connections of The Thorn in the Heart would result in something more…

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By Pam Grady (384) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 01 Apr 2010

The movie rarely flags, but it is hard to get past the notion that what is onscreen is nothing more than an artfully made home movie and that…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Apr 2010

So-so documentary about filmmaker Michel Gondry's gregarious elderly aunt and her reminiscences of family and long years teaching kids in rural…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 31 Mar 2010

The film's opening -- a family dinner where favorite dishes are discussed -- suggests a liveliness that the film never fully realizes…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 31 Mar 2010

If he’d pulled back more, Gondry might’ve seen the real story here: how maternal figures often look better to people who don’t actually…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Mar 2010

It's a shock, then, that The Thorn in the Heart, Gondry's documentary about his own family, is so unimaginative and inaccessible…

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By Shannon J (34) on 17 Mar 2010

THE THORN IN THE HEART (L'Epine dans le Coeur) is a personal look at the life of Gondry family matriarch, Michel's aunt Suzette Gondry, and…

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By Kylie J (19) on 02 Feb 2010

A wonderful documentary chronicling the life of the Gondry family matriarch, his aunt Suzette Gondry, and her relationship with her son, Jean-Yves…

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