The Big Picture

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The Big Picture

2010

1h 54m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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86%

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43 Reviews

63%

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1,000+ Ratings

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.

Calvin Wilson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

12/07/2012

3/4

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

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Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

11/30/2012

3/4

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

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Walter V. Addiego

San Francisco Chronicle

11/21/2012

3/4

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.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/19/2022

4/5

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.

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

11/06/2018

4/5

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.

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Joseph Walsh

CineVue

08/24/2018

2/5

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

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10/17/2020

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

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11/03/2014

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

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07/19/2014

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

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05/13/2014

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

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02/08/2014

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?"

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02/08/2014

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.

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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: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Screenwriter: Éric Lartigau, Laurent de Bartillat, Douglas Kennedy
Production Co: CiBy 2000, TF1 Films Production, EuropaCorp
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $158.4K
Runtime: 1h 54m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)