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      Lemming

      2005 2 hr. 10 min. Mystery & Thriller List
      72% 47 Reviews Tomatometer 62% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score Alain Getty (Laurent Lucas) and his wife, Bénédicte (Charlotte Gainsbourg), are happily married and enjoying the luxuries afforded them by Alain's successful career. Alain invites his boss, Richard (André Dussollier), and Richard's wife, Alice (Charlotte Rampling), for dinner one night, but things quickly turn sour when Alice becomes rude and erratic. The discovery of a rare lemming in the kitchen sink -- and Bénédicte's strange behavior -- is just the beginning of Alain's confusion. Read More Read Less
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      A creepy psychological thriller, with superb performances and natural tension flowing from every frame, Lemming is a worthy successor to Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.

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      Audience Member My take on this film is... Awesome! Think "Swimming Pool", or "La Moustache". Was is all a dream? was it all real? what it a mental health issue? I loved it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Echoes of Haneke's Caché, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Lynch's Lost Highway. If that excites you then you'll love Dominik Moll's mesmerising psychological thriller with its serpentine plotting and quiet threat. The less you know about it the better. Wonderfully acted by the entire cast. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Alternates between being interesting and oddly dull. This experiment in metaphor and surrealism never really works. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't speak French, yet I feel this film would make more sense without subtitles... It's interesting and has a creeping tension that's never over the top but it's stuck in the all-too-familiar realm of mixing reality with illusion to a frustrating and headache inducing extent. it simply isn't necessary to be this oblique- there's time spent creating an unease within normality and when it all stops being normal the unease becomes confusion and then disinterest. The performances are strong- I'm personally a big fan of Gainsbourg and she gives a typically good performance here. It doesn't change the fact that this is a slow frenzy of a film though- a strange beast that spends most of its time lying down instead of roaring around. It's fun to observe for a while but as it goes on the spectacle lessens. There's still much to see here- it's constantly intriguing and most scenes would work very well as stand-alone devices but the experience overall is no where near as smart. If ever there was a film a film that wasn't the sum of its parts, its this one. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Splendid work by all four leads plus a squeaking role for the lemming. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member A French thriller, starring one of my favorite actresses, Charlotte Gainsbourg, as Bendicte, the wife of Alain (Laurent Lucas), who has moved to a new town for his job. He is befriended by his boss, Richard (Andre Dussollier) along with Richard's wife, Alice (Charlotte Rampling). The friendship quickly becomes a nightmare scenario because of the mental instability of Alice. I had trouble connecting to this, as it tended to rely on what appears to be the supernatural for its logical structure. A lot of strange things happen that seem to have no relation to each other, except in the most superficial way and I just felt like the attempt to bring them all together lacked finesse. The tension depends on trying to figure out whether the events were actually happening as Alain experienced them, or were the product of a psychotic break or a lingering effect from an traffic accident he winds up having. All in all, more than a tad unsatisfying. I'm still not sure what the lemming was supposed to signify. Alain finds one in their kitchen sink drain early on and it shows up in several scenes after that, but it seemed not to serve any purpose other than to lend its name to the film! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Marta Barber Miami Herald Holds enough interest throughout to keep you entertained -- unless you're afraid of mice. Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 25, 2006 Full Review Moira MacDonald Seattle Times Dominik Moll's masterfully cast psychological thriller Lemming crackles with tension; its story keeps going off to unexpected places as we watch breathlessly, unable to look away. Rated: 3.5/4 Aug 4, 2006 Full Review Bill Stamets Chicago Sun-Times This spooky, quasi-sci-fi, psychological thriller is unclear about what's real and what's not -- and not in any interesting way. Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 4, 2006 Full Review Anton Bitel Eye for Film slick, funny and unsettling, slipping between psychological thriller, absurdist farce and ghost story into an unnerving dreamscape where psychosis meets metempsychosis. Jul 10, 2007 Full Review Lewis Beale Film Journal International If Lemming doesn't necessarily work on an intellectual level, it sure does emotionally. Mar 1, 2007 Full Review Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile A cross between a psychological and supernatural thriller, the film is intriguing, baffling and often confusing Nov 10, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Alain Getty (Laurent Lucas) and his wife, Bénédicte (Charlotte Gainsbourg), are happily married and enjoying the luxuries afforded them by Alain's successful career. Alain invites his boss, Richard (André Dussollier), and Richard's wife, Alice (Charlotte Rampling), for dinner one night, but things quickly turn sour when Alice becomes rude and erratic. The discovery of a rare lemming in the kitchen sink -- and Bénédicte's strange behavior -- is just the beginning of Alain's confusion.
      Director
      Dominik Moll
      Screenwriter
      Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand
      Production Co
      Diaphana Films, France 3 Cinéma
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Rerelease Date (Theaters)
      May 19, 2006
      Release Date (DVD)
      Aug 15, 2006
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $81.6K