The Great Pretender

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The Great Pretender

2018

1h 11m

Drama

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The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect in the New York theater world.

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Self-delusion is the principal subject of this short, acerbic comedy by Nathan Silver.

Dec 21, 2018

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Flashbacks and fantasies, plus wry inserts of film clips and complex overlaps of art and life, adorn-for that matter, overwhelm-the story, which is built on flimsy psychological clichés amid the implacable imperatives of desire and disease.

Dec 10, 2018

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

The energetically crafted, well-acted movie about characters one would go to considerable extremes to avoid in real life is turning into a veritable indie micro-genre.

Dec 6, 2018

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Warren Cantrell

The Playlist

Silver has done something really special with all of this, bringing the stories of these four people together in a sort of relationship mélange that speaks to the ways people can't help but miss the forest for the trees.

Rated: A

Apr 3, 2019

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Ray Pride

Newcity

The offhanded, piercing quality of the comedy within the viper's nest of romantic roundelays suggests a cruel Alan Rudolph, and that's more than enough for me.

Dec 28, 2018

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Christopher James

AwardsCircuit.com

The Great Pretenders fails at every genre it pretends to be.

Rated: 1/4

Nov 16, 2018

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Synopsis

The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect in the New York theater world.

Director: Nathan Silver
Producer: Jack Dunphy, Danelle Eliav, Jere B. Ford, Matt Grady, Nathan Silver
Screenwriter: Jack Dunphy, Nathan Silver
Production Co: Factory 25 Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 31, 2019
Runtime: 1h 11m