André Téchiné's beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed drama Strayed has less to do with the events and moral choices of the era that continue to shape French identity than with the timeless psychological effects of finding oneself unmoored from the familiar.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
What makes this film special, as in his other films, is the getting there. Téchiné is the master of subtle shifts in mood, an acute delineator of psychological interplay, and therefore demands the utmost of his actors.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Dennis Lim
As with Téchiné's best work, Strayed is a peculiar, lingering blend of robustness and delicacy--a movie with hardly a single wasted frame, incongruous word, or false gesture.Read Full Review »
It begins with a montage of devastating black-and-white news clips interwoven with flashes of the flight of a terrified young widow and her two children. After that, the movie softens somewhat, but it never succumbs to sentimentality.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Strayed has the strange clarity of a fable. It strips everything away until only instincts and emotions are left.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Hardship and suffering don't drive this movie so much as a romantic's gloss on the two.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Begins and ends with facts of war, but it is really a film about the nature of male and female, about middle-class values and those who cannot afford them, about how helpless we can be when the net of society is broken.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Béart, too beautiful for words, brings a complex swirl of emotions, elegantly restrained and marked with pain, to this finely wrought work.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Charles Taylor
It's an impressive, intelligent, compact piece of filmmaking...But Téchiné might be one of those directors whose work is best appreciated by critics and other filmmakers.Read Full Review »
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