False Confessions

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False Confessions

Released Jul 14, 2017

1h 25m

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An accountant and his accomplice try to manipulate a good-hearted, wealthy widow and her friend.

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

The essential problem is that artifice for artifice's sake loses its fascination when divorced from human emotion or grand stakes.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 9, 2017

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Onscreen these devices seem stagey and awkward, and the pacing is slow and clunky.

Jul 20, 2017

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Sheri Linden

Los Angeles Times

Despite a few playful flourishes, filmmaker Luc Bondy's experiment in artifice never takes flight.

Jul 20, 2017

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Elissa Suh

StageBuddy.com

This rendition loses something perhaps in substance and style; the beauty and weight of Marivaux's language obviously to the non French-speaker, but also any meta-reflexive commentary that might be gleaned from the film's setting...

Mar 12, 2020

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Playful, bizarre, and unabashedly theatrical, choice casting and an inescapable aura of finality imbues this curious last testament from Luc Bondy with an underlying streak of melancholy.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 10, 2019

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Cate Marquis

We Are Movie Geeks

It is just a little bit of theater-and-film crossover fun for Francophiles.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 29, 2019

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Então, como eu havia dito, 2016 foi o ano de Huppert, Binoche e Stewart. Em 2017, Kristen Stewart parece estar à frente, já que este filme saído da montagem teatral da peça de Marivaux não tem alma. E olha que é difícil errar com Huppert e Garrel. Senhor.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Luc Bondy

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Isabelle Huppert

Araminte

Louis Garrel

Dorante

Bulle Ogier

Madame Argante

Yves Jacques

Dubois

Bernard Verley

Monsieur Rémy

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An accountant and his accomplice try to manipulate a good-hearted, wealthy widow and her friend.

Director: Luc Bondy
Screenwriter: Luc Bondy, Geoffrey Layton
Distributor: Big World Pictures
Production Co: Arte France, Maha Productions, Idéale Audience
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 14, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 24, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $27.5K
Runtime: 1h 25m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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