The Big Picture

2010

1h 54m

Drama

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86%

43 Reviews

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63%

1,000+ Ratings

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A successful lawyer with a perfect life murders his wife's lover and assumes his identity. He flees to an isolated part of Yugoslavia where he gets another shot at being himself and seeing the big picture.

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Calvin Wilson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"The Big Picture" ends perhaps a bit too ambiguously, but there's something refreshing about its faith in the moviegoer's intelligence.

Rated: 3/4

Dec 7, 2012

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Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

Director Eric Lartigau tells the story slowly, less interested in suspense than in character.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 30, 2012

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Walter V. Addiego

San Francisco Chronicle

Takes familiar material - involving a violent crime and an assumed identity - and nudges it just enough to keep us interested for most of the ride.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 21, 2012

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

A stirring and thought-provoking picture driven by a brilliant performance from Romain Duris. It asks more questions than it answers and allows the audience to wrestle with the rights and wrongs. I like that.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 19, 2022

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

As a study of a man pushed to the edge and unable to run away from himself, The Big Picture is as fascinating as it is slow-burning.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 6, 2018

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Joseph Walsh

CineVue

The Big Picture disappoints, leading you to feel that you should perhaps have been owed so much more.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 24, 2018

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Will surprisingly grab you as you are sucked up in the selfish moves of a seemingly boring lawyer as he ends up on the edge of survival

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Great suspense, well acted, the images were well constructed......

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

loved this story of how easily life can change, making the wrong choices etc ..

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

Movies that you know nothing about but end up in your cue for some reason that are excellent- this is one of those.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

A film that makes you wonder about circumstantially leaving riches, career and children behind to be a photographer in war-torn Serbia, living on a 100euro/month rental in the middle of nowhere. For much of the movie, one keeps asking, "why?" but by the abrupt end one can only conclude: "if so, why not sooner?"

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Audience Member

Duris gave a brilliant performance in this intense and complex drama of self discovery and narcissism. The cinematography was beautifully dreamy and poetically realistic at the same time.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Éric Lartigau

Director

Romain Duris

Paul Exben

Marina Foïs

Sarah Exben

Niels Arestrup

Bartholomé

Branka Katić

Ivana

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Synopsis

A successful lawyer with a perfect life murders his wife's lover and assumes his identity. He flees to an isolated part of Yugoslavia where he gets another shot at being himself and seeing the big picture.

Director: Éric Lartigau
Producer: Didier Hoarau
Screenwriter: Stéphane Cabel, Laurent De Bartillat, Éric Lartigau, Laurent De Bartillat, Éric Lartigau, Stéphane Cabel
Production Co: EuropaCorp, CiBy 2000, TF1 Films Production
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (Canada)
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $158.4K
Runtime: 1h 54m