Allure

Name: Allure
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Released: March 16, 2018
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Denis O'Hare, Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Cobden, Jonathan Shatzky, Julia Sarah Stone

2018

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Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: March 16, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Denis O'Hare, Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Cobden, Jonathan Shatzky, Julia Sarah Stone, Lara Binamé, Maxim Roy, Nick Baillie, Teresa Picciano, Xavier Loyer, Yardly Kavanagh

Summary: Laura (Evan Rachel Wood) works as a house cleaner for her father's company but her personal life is not so pristine. Rough around the edges, looking for love in all the wrong places, her heartbreaking behavior points to hardships of the past. One day on the job, in yet another house, Laura meets Eva (Julia Sarah Stone), a quiet teenagerLaura (Evan Rachel Wood) works as a house cleaner for her father's company but her personal life is not so pristine. Rough around the edges, looking for love in all the wrong places, her heartbreaking behavior points to hardships of the past. One day on the job, in yet another house, Laura meets Eva (Julia Sarah Stone), a quiet teenager unhappy with her disciplined life. In Eva, Laura rediscovers an innocent tenderness. In Laura, Eva finds a thrilling rebel who can bring her into unknown territories. The mutual attraction soon morphs into obsession as Laura convinces Eva to run away and secretly come live with her, perilously raising the stakes for the young, impressionable girl as Laura's emotional instability becomes increasingly clear. As their world closes in, they must unearth certain truths to find a way out.… Expand

Director: Carlos Sanchez and Jason Sanchez

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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IndieWire Jude Dry

Jan 19, 2018

Tightly written and sensitively rendered, the devastating film is propelled by masterful performances, led by a bewitching Wood in the role she was born to play. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Jan 19, 2018

We’re shown damning cycles feeding on each other that prove worse when their hypocrisy and irony is acknowledged. And both Wood and Stone will make you scream and cry depending on what they allow or ignite. Read full review

The Playlist Lena Wilson

Mar 16, 2018

It’s a well-made, gutsy film. So, if you can withstand the whole soul-crushing feature, you’ll probably be glad you stuck it out. If “glad” is an emotion you can still feel afterward. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Mar 15, 2018

Allure is powered by Wood's intense charisma. Laura deploys her magnetic gaze as a weapon, though the destruction she wreaks is most often directed at herself. The character's situation is always untenable, and as it collides with inevitability, the co-writer-director Sanchez brothers lose the tight grip of control they've maintained over the story. Read full review

Kate Taylor

Apr 5, 2018

The drama is memorable but often feels grimly unpleasant rather than moving. And, as always, it’s frustrating to see Montreal cast as some anonymous and unilingual North American city. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Susan Wloszczyna

Mar 16, 2018

Wood, whose whippet-thin appearance in this dank noir-ish drama semi-draped in mystery could be described as Kristen Stewart lite, fully dedicates herself to embodying a rather unpleasant and contradictory character as she attracts her prey and then goes about abusing them physically and emotionally. Read full review

Derek Smith

Mar 13, 2018

Evan Rachel Wood and Julia Sarah Stone have a natural chemistry together that brings a feverish and unsettling intensity to their characters' tumultuous relationship, but there's no reprieve from the dour tone of the film. Read full review

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Duke_Keagan

Jul 9, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ::Spoilers...of a sort::

Interesting movie. Almost. Several storylines going on. Eva and her relationship with her mother. Kind of just ended. Laura and Eva's relationship, with each girls individual story intertwined throughout. Both left unanswered. Laura's fathers story was wrapped up. I knew from his first appearance he and Laura had a past. Laying his story down without any details was interesting to me. I think it was pretty clear to any viewer though.

The ending was...odd at best. I didn't understand the swimming pool scene at all. I got the juxtaposition (right word?) between Eva sinking in the pool and how she felt she was drowning in her life. I dont get why she suddenly left and ran away in such a panic. Never knowing what happened to her left me rather disappointed. With Eva gone, Laura realised she was alone. (I sure know that feeling) Watching Laura's life spiral out of control I figured she would end her life. While she didn't, her ending seemed to imply the act.

Anyway...I found I was caught up in the rolling plot, certainly not on the edge of my seat by any means. If you like to look into the deeper aspects of a film this is a good movie to watch. The director and the writers did a good job in how they laid down the plot devices.

If you are looking for suspense, or action, or something more ...visual. This isn't the movie for you.… Expand

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