Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

The Successor

2023 1h 52m Drama Mystery & Thriller List
67% Tomatometer 9 Reviews
Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organize his estranged father's funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father's weak heart. Read More Read Less

Critics Reviews

View All (9) Critics Reviews
Jordan Mintzer Hollywood Reporter Let’s call it a case of swinging for the fences and hitting a foul ball that lands somewhere far off in the upper tiers, so much does this ambitious and well-made but extremely flawed film miss its mark. Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Peter Debruge Variety Whether the film is meant to be seen as an isolated case or a metaphor for a much larger societal problem, the impact is unnerving. Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Fionnuala Halligan Screen International The Successor delivers a succession of jolts, and none of them are palatable. They’re all finessed, though, by a writer-director and technical team who know exactly what they’re doing... Sep 26, 2023 Full Review Gisela Savdie El Heraldo Unlike 'Custody', the movie does not delve deeply enough into the impact of machismo on male identity, leaving the audience with the challenge of finding their own meaning. Jul 14, 2024 Full Review Sergi Sánchez Fotogramas [Xavier Legrand] opens the door to a pitiless psychological thriller, pushing the verisimilitude to the limit to intensify a horrifying idea: that evil finds the most perverse ways of perpetuating itself through affiliation. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Mar 25, 2024 Full Review Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) A dark and almost delirious walk through madness, genetic mental disorders, and the fear of illness... [Full review in Spanish] Mar 25, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews
The Successor

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Show Less Cast & Crew Show More Cast & Crew

More Like This

View All Best Movies to Stream at Home
My Dead Dad 83% 58% My Dead Dad TRAILER for My Dead Dad Opponent 93% % Opponent The Other Son 100% % The Other Son Streamline 76% 64% Streamline TRAILER for Streamline Discover more movies and TV shows. View More
View All The Successor photos

The Successor

The Successor (2023) The Successor (2023) The Successor (2023) View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organize his estranged father's funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father's weak heart.
Director
Xavier Legrand
Producer
Alexandre Gavras, Sylvain Corbeil, Anton Iffland-Stettner, Eva Kuperman
Production Co
BE TV, Stenola Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Metafilms, KG Productions, VOO, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
French
Runtime
1h 52m