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The Intruder

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After receiving a heart transplant, an enigmatic loner (Michel Subor) journeys to Tahiti to reconnect with the son he fathered many years earlier.
The Intruder

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Critics Consensus

The impressionistic narrative may confound the viewer, but Denis crafts wonderfully poetic, dreamlike imagery.

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Glenn Kenny RogerEbert.com 03/26/2021
4/4
It's so vital and elastic that it offers up more secrets and epiphanies every time. Go to Full Review
Amy Taubin Film Comment Magazine 11/19/2013
Denis is one of cinema's greatest narrative poets, and The Intruder, the story of an adventurer, is her most adventurous cinematic poem. Go to Full Review
Moira MacDonald Seattle Times 04/07/2006
3/4
While it may take a few viewings to sort the details out, much about L'Intrus lingers, shimmering quietly in the memory. Go to Full Review
Kathy Fennessy Seattle Film Blog Dec 24
3.5/4
As in latter-period Buñuel, [Claire] Denis leaves out crucial pieces of information. I was never in doubt that she knew what she was doing, but I wasn't always sure why she was doing it. I'm still not, but I was spellbound. Go to Full Review
Jesse Cataldo Spectrum Culture 05/20/2022
Formulates a chimeric disquisition on the things that divide us - the self-imposed limitations and expectations cultivated by fear and ignorance - which result in their own form of emotional confinement. Go to Full Review
Erika Balsom 4Columns 03/22/2021
An expansive reflection on the pleasures and dangers of boundary violation...Human and animal, past and present, life and death, dreams and waking life: in L'intrus, every threshold is there to be crossed. Go to Full Review
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S R @ScottR Apr 1 Bizarre and slow reflection film. I did like the Alps setting though. Made me jealous for others possessions and circumstances. It was on IMDb's 250 list, but I don't think it should be. See more 05/04/2019 It’s just a Pacific Heights with different actors See more 02/03/2018 Though the cinematography is impressive a film needs to do more than just look good to sustain attention for two hours, and this fails completely to engage on any other level. The biggest problem is that the characters barely talk - which makes it impossible to work out how they might relate to each other, to feel empathy towards any of them, or to discern anything approaching a coherent narrative. That isn't "deep", it's just bad storytelling. It's depressing to see so many critics lauding this film, as in my view it's the kind of thing that gives art cinema a bad name (and I like art cinema). You might as well stick a Rorschach blot on the screen - I'm sure many of the drooling critics would find that "profound" and "poetic" too. See more 02/11/2012 This is so terrible, so pretentious, so silly that it's flabbergasting. The camera jiggles, and when something important is happening the camera jiggles even more, and it becomes very dark so you can't tell what happened. Maybe someone got hurt. Or killed. Or met a chipmunk. Impossible to know. Then the big music slows down again and you're somewhere else looking at other people. Probably people who weren't in the movie before. Lots and lots of different people. But a lot of time you don't actually see people. The jiggly camera focuses on stomachs, necks, that sort of thing. No one to root for. Nothing to hope for. You see a guy stop his car and shave with an electric razor. Not a clue, mind you, but the director found it interesting. It's a movie for people who are too insecure to admit they have no idea what's going on. Even if we were to find some answers, was it really worth all the trouble of watching garbage like this? Not a chance. I freely admit I wrote this review after viewing the thing for only about 45-50 minutes, but if this much of the film is absurd and foolish, can the rest save it? I felt it was my responsibility to warn others. See more 02/02/2012 Did not make any sense. See more 09/20/2011 i don't think the name of this film is ever explained in the film. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis After receiving a heart transplant, an enigmatic loner (Michel Subor) journeys to Tahiti to reconnect with the son he fathered many years earlier.
Director
Claire Denis
Producer
Humbert Balsan
Screenwriter
Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Production Co
Ognon Pictures, Arte France Cinema
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Dec 23, 2005
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 25, 2006
Box Office (Gross USA)
$40.6K
Runtime
2h 10m