Hide & Seek

2014

1h 22m

Drama

Romance

LGBTQ+

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5 Reviews

Tomatometer

5%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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Four young Londoners move to an isolated country cottage to test social conventions and their own inhibitions.

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Hide and Seek (also called Amorous) is beautifully shot, and Rea Mole's performance is very good, given the thinness of the script. The movie gets better as it goes, as some semblance of a theme coalesces around the characters it studies. But it's a long wait, and for much of the film it's hard to generate much sympathy for the milky millennial misfits we are obliged to watch. Only Mole's character suggests anything like a core. Plus, it's hard to silence the question, "How are you four jobless kids paying for all this?"

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Hollow, pretentious & sliding.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Hide and Seek boasts an interesting concept, but lacks the depth and conviction to truly immerse viewers. An impressively delicate visual style and some likable performances ensure that Coates film is always a semi-entertaining watch.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Title: Lot of pretenses but going nowhere. No plot, no takeaway message, no conclusion and no morale, other than that our way of life may need re-evaluation I saw this film at the Film Fest Ghent 2014, where it was part of the section Global Cinema. To spoil my lack of appreciation upfront: I cannot find anything positive in this movie. The outset is not clear, and does not become clearer later on. Only those who have read the synopsis before, have a bit of a clue what it is all about. The evening games and their underlying rules remain unclear as well. Even more unclear is the purpose of the (home made) coffin that is set alight, a ritual that we see in the beginning with a repeat later on. Only one scene was interesting, viz. when a 5th person arrived (an ex-boyfriend). Much to his regret his ex-partner announced that she was much happier than ever before. Alas, the potential drama faltered and he left shortly after. I only understand half of the title. The word Hide seems a reference to being away from "normal" civilization. Nevertheless, I'm surprised about the amount of "bourgeois" stuff they obviously had available in that remote cottage, for example given the Christmas related attributes which they showed in much more variety than I ever had. Further, the word Seek is completely lost on me, be it that it may refer to finding a new future in living your life. This second part of the title promises that there is a message, a conclusion or even a morale, but I found neither. The 4 actors (plus 1 for a short time) did their best, and worked believable through their respective roles. Neither got the opportunity to reveal much of their background and expectations. And neither is there any drama on the table, except (see above) in one isolated case (which failed). They cannot show their strengths on those fields, but I don't think that is their fault alltogether. In the final Q&A the question was raised how much of the action was improvised and what was rehearsed. Apart from that it was a bit of both, I did not hear a clear answer. So what is left to admire?? I observe only pretenses that this film will provoke thoughts about your own life as it is (but it failed miserably for me). Possibly I'm not the appropriate target group??

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Joanna Coates

Director

Josh O'Connor

Max

Hannah Arterton

Charlotte

Rea Mole

Leah

Daniel Metz

Jack

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Diego Batlle

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Hide and Seek is a singular and captivating experience. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Dec 29, 2023

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Cameron Ward

One Room With A View

Coates' dedicated resistance to doubt's subsequent melodrama reinvigorates utopian tropes to go beyond the usual forgone conclusion.

Rated: 4/5

May 25, 2019

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David Keyes

Cinemaphile.org

Not so much a study of characters as it is a simplified examination of behaviors, all of them too far out of context to be the source of any significant dramatic depth.

Rated: 2/4

Feb 23, 2016

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Mark Adams

Screen International

In the end it flatters to deceive and never really delivers in terms of drama or radical thinking.

Jun 26, 2014

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Paul Gallagher

The List

While the film's simple and intriguing premise is ripe for that kind of approach, the filmmakers fail to get their teeth into any of it.

Rated: 2/5

Jun 20, 2014

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Synopsis

Four young Londoners move to an isolated country cottage to test social conventions and their own inhibitions.

Director: Joanna Coates
Producer: Matthew Holt, David J.A. Grant
Screenwriter: Joanna Coates, Daniel Metz
Genre: Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Runtime: 1h 22m

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