Serpent's Path

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Serpent's Path

2024

1h 53m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Jan 24

It’s a singularly dismal affair, one that sits in a necessarily uncomfortable place between genre thriller and arthouse doodle. But this is another intriguing exercise in cultivating a tone of extreme unease and just sustaining it until the credits roll.

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Jonathan Romney

Screen International

10/04/2024

A more deliberately-crafted prestige affair starring major names of Japanese and French cinema. Yet it goes through its grim tragi-farce moves rather mechanically, pulling the viewer’s strings in a way that is hardly unpredictable.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

09/25/2024

For all the agile, unpredictable narrative maneuvrings of Kurosawa and Aurelien Ferenczi’s script, the chief rewards of Serpent’s Path lie less in its grand design than in its eccentric, coolly witty detailsmoment’s strain.

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Ryan Swen

Taipei Mansions

Sep 5

The Serpent’s Path introduction of a more coherent throughline trades Serpent’s Path‘s haze of confusion—signified by the copious use of complex math problems—for the brutal, cold light of digital and two-faced interactions.

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Scott Phillips

Forbes

Aug 7

Serpent’s Path (2024) is a compelling, astute crime film.

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Daniel Gorman

In Review Online

Jul 12

A fairly faithful remake... but still different, expanded now in fascinating, oblique ways... [and] unnervingly hypnotic.

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Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Screenwriter: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Production Co: Tarantula, Cinéfrance Studios, Kadokawa
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: French (France)
Runtime: 1h 53m