Beloved

Released Aug 17, 2012

2h 13m

Drama

Musical

Romance

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57%

46 Reviews

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45%

500+ Ratings

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A carefree woman and her commitment-shy daughter have different experiences with love throughout their lives.

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nonsensical (like a GLEE episode) but still fun to see stars playing on screen

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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This was excellent. Catherine Deneuve still has it. .

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Painful and delightful master tragedy. It has everything we've come to love about french films, including Catherine Deneuve. Not crazy about the singing at first, but it shows the contrast of elation and sorrow that comes with being helplessly in love, after a couple of songs I ended up enjoying the beautiful music.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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After being mistaken for a prostitute in 1964, Madeleine(Ludivine Sagnier) decides to make a living of it for real. She rationalizes at least that way she will not have to steal from her day job at a shoe store and risk jail in order to afford the finer things in life. Instead, she should be more forward thinking, considering the therapy her now-grown daughter Vera(Chiara Mastroiani) requires in her rootless life in a few decades. Vera is a product of a marriage between Madeleine and Jaromil(Rasha Bukvic), a Czech doctor, who takes her away from Paris and a life in prostitution right into the path of a Soviet tank. Like most of Christophe Honore's movies, "Beloved" is a work in frustration. However, it comes closer to being a success than his other maybe-sort-of-musicals. That's not because he fully commits to the genre for once or the songs being better but because of the emotionally precise performances of Chiara Mastroianni and Paul Schneider.(You have not lived until you have heard Paul Schneider sing in French.) But then Honore reaches too far, not realizing he does not have the skill or the focus to fully realize a multi-generational epic like this one. That just leaves it for the self-involved characters to wander the globe aimlessly.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Very rarely are movies made about unrequited (one-sided) love and love lost, let alone musicals. It's good and somewhat interesting; though it tests your patience a lot. With the terrific star-cast it has, I expected a lot more. It falls short of a definite and good plot, and it lacks heart. Catherine Deneuve is not even utilized properly. Ludivine Sagnier is charming; it's amazing how much she has grown up since Ozon's 'Swimming Pool'. And it was delightful to see Paul Schneider in this French musical. The remaining cast just does their job, which is not much. Even though it's a musical, the songs are quite average. The only song I actually loved is 'Ici Londres (Heaven Knows)', sung by Chiara Mastroianni and Paul Schneider.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Is it or isn't it a musical? Make up your mind. Depressing end. Way too long.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Christophe Honoré

Director

Chiara Mastroianni

Véra Passer

Catherine Deneuve

Madeleine

Ludivine Sagnier

Madeleine jeune

Louis Garrel

Clément

Milos Forman

Jaromil Passer

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Characters traipse around city streets singing 60s-style pop tunes in this ungainly, overconceived musical.

Sep 14, 2012

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Ty Burr

Boston Globe

Honor's a genuinely gifted eccentric of a filmmaker, but on the evidence of "Beloved," he could use a nap.

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 13, 2012

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The plot of "Beloved," I'm afraid, may try your patience.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 13, 2012

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

Tackles lightly and with levity complex themes with more triumphs than shortcomings... [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 6/10

Oct 4, 2022

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

The Honoré elements his fans have come to love are all here, but the package is somewhat bloated and lacking that extra spark he needed to make the magic truly come to life.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 6, 2019

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Patrick Gamble

CineVue

Lacking in momentum and severely overworked, Honoré's latest ﬁlm offers a glimmer of his talents.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 8, 2019

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Synopsis

A carefree woman and her commitment-shy daughter have different experiences with love throughout their lives.

Director: Christophe Honoré
Screenwriter: Christophe Honoré, Christophe Honoré
Distributor: IFC Films
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Original Language: French (Canada)
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 17, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 29, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $119.6K
Runtime: 2h 13m

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