Barrage

2017

1h 52m

Drama

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55%

11 Reviews

Tomatometer

100%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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Catherine returns to Luxembourg after living abroad and kidnaps her daughter to take her on a road trip to a lake.

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Enjoyable, sometimes the music feels intrusive. Themis Pauwels is good. The direction itself is great but the whole film loses draw in the last third. Would like to see more films out of Luxembourg, although why miss this opportunity to make a film in Luxembourgish as a Luxembourgish director...? Slight note about the misrepresentation of antidepressants again in films generally as a negative rather than as vital medication for somebody who is bipolar or unable to manage their depression - also Alba would be either be fast asleep or seriously affected by taking that many antidepressants at once.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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A sensitive and moving character study of three women who are messed-up to varying degrees.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Laura Schroeder

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Lolita Chammah

Catherine

Themis Pauwels

Alba

Isabelle Huppert

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Marja-Leena Junker

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Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

The film's title comes from a dam on the nearby river; it's also a tennis term, match de barrage meaning "playoff." The playoff between Chammah and Huppert is certainly relishable...

Mar 8, 2018

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Marilyn Ferdinand

Chicago Reader

Schroeder can't sustain enough tension or emotion to make the story compelling.

Oct 19, 2017

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Guy Lodge

Variety

The air trickles out of this sensitive but clich-laced drama ...

Feb 12, 2017

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

The director scores real-life mother and daughter duo Isabelle Huppert and Lolita Chammah for her protracted examination of control and rebellion crossing three generations of women from the same bloodline.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 4, 2019

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Sarah Ward

Goethe-Institute Australien Magazine

[Here] a glint in the eye can say so much, both about who a person is, and who they want to be.

Jul 20, 2017

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Patrick Gamble

CineVue

An overwrought inquiry into inherited anxieties.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 13, 2017

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Synopsis

Catherine returns to Luxembourg after living abroad and kidnaps her daughter to take her on a road trip to a lake.

Director: Laura Schroeder
Screenwriter: Marie Nimier, Laura Schroeder
Production Co: Red Lion Sarl, Entre Chien et Loup
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (Canada)
Runtime: 1h 52m