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Review agreagator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported that 74% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 58 reviews.<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Strayed/ ''Strayed'' at RottenTomatoes.com], Retrieved 2011-04-07</ref> [[Metacritic]] reported the film had an average score of 70 out of 100, based on 27 reviews.<ref>{{cite web |title = Strayed |url = http://www.metacritic.com/movie/strayed |work = [[Metacritic]] |accessdate = April 6, 2011 }}</ref> |
Review agreagator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported that 74% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 58 reviews.<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Strayed/ ''Strayed'' at RottenTomatoes.com], Retrieved 2011-04-07</ref> [[Metacritic]] reported the film had an average score of 70 out of 100, based on 27 reviews.<ref>{{cite web |title = Strayed |url = http://www.metacritic.com/movie/strayed |work = [[Metacritic]] |accessdate = April 6, 2011 }}</ref> |
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In his review for [[Los Angeles Times]], [[Kevin Thomas]] wrote: ”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. Dennis Lim witting for [[the Village Voice]] said that “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. Influential film critic [[Roger Ebert]] described ''Strayed'' as “ 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.” In [[Variety]] David Stratton commented that with ''Strayed'' “Techine creates a considerable degree of suspense with minimal ingredients here, and he has been judicious in his casting choices.” |
In his review for [[Los Angeles Times]], [[Kevin Thomas]] wrote: ”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. Dennis Lim witting for [[the Village Voice]] said that “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. Influential film critic [[Roger Ebert]] described ''Strayed'' as “ 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.” In [[Variety]] David Stratton commented that with ''Strayed'' “Techine creates a considerable degree of suspense with minimal ingredients here, and he has been judicious in his casting choices.” <ref>{{cite web |title = Strayed |url = http://www.metacritic.com/movie/strayed/critic-reviews|work = [[Metacritic]] |accessdate = April 6, 2011 }}</ref> [[Lisa Schwarzbaum]] from [[Entertainment Weekly]] gave the film a favorable review describing it as ”Beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed”.<ref>{{cite web |title = Strayed |url = http://www.metacritic.com/movie/strayed |work = [[Metacritic]] |accessdate = April 6, 2011 }}</ref> |
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[[Lisa Schwarzbaum]] from [[Entertainment Weekly]] gave the film a favorable review describing it as ”Beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed”.<ref>{{cite web |title = Strayed |url = http://www.metacritic.com/movie/strayed |work = [[Metacritic]] |accessdate = April 6, 2011 }}</ref> |
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==DVD release== |
==DVD release== |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | André Téchiné |
| Written by | Gilles Perrault Gilles Taurand André Téchiné |
| Produced by | Adam Betteridge |
| Starring | Emmanuelle Béart Gaspard Ulliel Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet |
| Cinematography | Agnès Godard |
| Edited by | Martine Giordano |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
Release dates |
14 May 2004 (U.S.A) |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Template:Film France |
| Language | French |
Strayed (Template:Lang-fr) is a 2003 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel. The plot follows, a widowed mother, who escaping occupied Paris with her two young children during World War II, finds shelter with an itinerant teenager at an abandoned rural house. The film is an adaptation of Gilles Perrault's novel The Boy With Grey Eyes (Le Garçon aux yeux gris). It was entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Plot
In June 1940, as German troops are advancing on Paris, Odile, an attractive widow in her late thirties, joins the exodus from the city, with her two children: 13-year-old Philippe and 7-year-old Cathy. Like many others, they are heading south in a long line of refugees escaping Paris by whatever means of transport possible. After fifty kilometers, a German planes bomb the choked road filled with civilians. Odile's car is destroyed and in the chaos, she runs from the roadside fields into the nearby woods, looking for shelter. They are helped by a shaven-headed wiry teenager, Yvan, who recommends that they continue off-road.
Resourceful and fiercely independent, Yvan, who is seventeen, can hunt and knows his way around the forest, so he can be of big help to Odile and her children. Odile regards this enigmatic scamp with overt suspicion, but Yvan charms Cathy and especially Philippe, who admires his rogue self-sufficiency and take-charge attitude. Afraid that Yvan will leave them, Philippe bribes him to stay, using his late father's watch as an inducement. After a night in the open, the four fugitives stumble upon a large house. Yvan unhesitatingly breaks in. Odile just would like to make a phone call, but Yvan convinces them all that the abandoned house is a safe and comfortable refuge from the war, at least temporarily. As he goes inside, Yvan cuts the phone lines and hides an existing radio, before opening the door to the others, ensuring their isolation from what is happening in the outside world..
An almost idyllic peaceful life follows for the four refugees, away from the war around them. The house is large and comfortable and as Odile soon discovers it was a country retreat owned by a married couple of musicians who left for abroad. Odile cleans, cooks and takes on house chores providing a sense of normalcy for her children. Her husband was killed recently fighting the Germans and she, a former school teacher, was ill prepared by the subsequent upheavals created by the war.
With time, Odile's suspicions about the young stranger begin to fade away, as Yvan makes himself indispensable providing food. Knowing the region and its dangers well, he hunts rabbits and fish from a nearby river during the day; at night he makes excursions to retrieve objects from dead soldiers and provisions from abandoned homes. Cathy enjoys his company and Philippe admires him as an ideal older brother, but when Yvan finds a gun and grenade, Odile hides it from him. Philippe refuses to tell Yvan where it is and they quarrel. Realizing that Yvan is illiterate, Odile begins to teach him how to read and write. She begins to open up to him, but Yvan does not give much information about his past only that he was orphaned and it is evident that he was in a reformatory. As he lays a side his brash attitude, he confesses to her that he loves her and wishes to become her husband. She is surprised and bemused, but flattered.
Days later, two French soldiers named Georges and Robert arrive leaving the war. There has been an armistice. Odile provides the soldiers with food and shelter but Yvan, who hides from them, do no trust them. Certain that they want to rape Odile he intends to kill them, but ends up hitting Philippe when he tries to stops him. Yvan decides to stay away. At night Odile walks out of the house where the soldiers sleep to find Yvan. They make love passionately, since he does not know other way, they have anal sex. As he is hungry, Yvan leaves to find something to eat. He promises to come back the next day and celebrate the soldier’s departure.
The next morning a guard arrives to the house, he has caught Yvan stealing. The clothing Yvan was wearing made the guard find out he was coming from the abandoned house. Yvan and Odile remain silent, but Philippe confesses that they know him, he is their friend. Odile then tells the guard how the young man helped them.
Sometime later Odile and her children are with many others in a camp for refugees. The guard approaches Odile in private. He wants to see if she has more information about Yvan, but she lies and tells him that he never even mention his name. The guard bluntly informs her that her friend committed suicide by hanging the night before. He was probably Jean Delmas a fugitive from a reformatory. When Philippe asks her mother about Yvan, Odile lies and says that he escaped.
Cast
- Emmanuelle Béart as Odile
- Gaspard Ulliel as Jean Demas alias Yvan
- Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet as Philippe
- Clémence Meyer as Cathy
- Samuel Labarthe as Robert
- Jean Fornerod as Georges
- Eric Kreikenmayer as The guard
Reception
Review agreagator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 74% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 58 reviews.[2] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 70 out of 100, based on 27 reviews.[3]
In his review for Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas wrote: ”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. Dennis Lim witting for the Village Voice said that “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. Influential film critic Roger Ebert described Strayed as “ 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.” In Variety David Stratton commented that with Strayed “Techine creates a considerable degree of suspense with minimal ingredients here, and he has been judicious in his casting choices.” [4] Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly gave the film a favorable review describing it as ”Beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed”.[5]
DVD release
Strayed (Les Égarés) was released on DVD in the United States on November 23, 2004 by Wellspring Media. The film is in French with English subtitles. The extras include interviews with Andre Techine, Gaspard Ulliel and Gilles Perrault. The region 2 DVD released in the United kingdom has no extra features.
Notes
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Strayed". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ^ Strayed at RottenTomatoes.com, Retrieved 2011-04-07
- ^ "Strayed". Metacritic. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ^ "Strayed". Metacritic. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ^ "Strayed". Metacritic. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
References
- Marshall, Bill. André Téchiné, Manchester University Press, 2007, ISBN 0719058317