Between Two Worlds
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: August 11, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
IndieWireChristian ZilkoAug 14, 2023
Binoche gives a predictably excellent performance, embodying Marianne with just the right amount of elite obliviousness without ever turning her into a caricature. It’s touching to see her become more empathetic as the story progresses, even if eventually snapping back to her old ways was the only possible outcome. Read full review
83
The Playlist Jul 16, 2021
Binoche’s naturalistic performance marries itself beautifully to the ensemble while grounding, in reality, a character unbelievable, yet true. Read full review
80
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerAug 17, 2023
Carrère, wisely I think, doesn’t turn the film into a reformist anthem. Shooting in a semidocumentary style, he allows us to absorb, along with Marianne, the relentless accretion of injustices. He also gives us some of the most believable portraits of female friendship I’ve ever seen in a movie. Read full review
80
Time OutDave CalhounJul 16, 2021
Although Binoche is the film’s star, her presence is smartly muted, allowing us time and space to discover the world as she does, and providing room for complexity in considering the ethics of his character’s work and of Carrère’s film itself. Read full review
80
Screen DailyWendy IdeJul 16, 2021
It’s particularly perceptive when it comes to the ethics of using real lives as material, and the question of the legitimacy of emotional bonds if one party is hiding essential truths about themselves. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassAug 7, 2023
Even when the film becomes something like a spy thriller, it never loses sight of its political themes. Read full review
68
TheWrapBen CrollJul 16, 2021
Between Two Worlds is highly self-aware, at some points simply playing up the odd dissonance of seeing as glamorous a figure as Juliette Binoche scrubbing toilets, and at other points making more caustic commentary on the impossible task the book and adaptation set out to accomplish. Read full review
63
Washington PostMark JenkinsAug 15, 2023
Between Two Worlds is freshest when it emphasizes its documentary-like qualities, such as the brief inserts of everyday scenes and locales shot by Philippe Lagnier without any guidance from the director. Less effective are traditional movie elements like Mathieu Lamboley’s score, which flirts too openly with Philip Glass’s style. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 8, 2023
Its predictability doesn’t break Between Two Worlds, but it does soften the blows it intends to deliver. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaAug 14, 2023
Carrère — known primarily in Europe as a writer of nonfiction books with a literary twist — applies a mood of cool journalistic sobriety to Marianne’s scandalous discoveries. . . Less compelling is the sentimental crisis that plays out because of Marianne’s deception. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyAug 11, 2023
This "lack" of a serious critique makes Between Two Worlds the story of a pampered journalist confronted with how "these people live," plus the fallout when her lie is discovered, rather than a real shot fired at an unfair system. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 16, 2021
The movie provides some nice, memorable bonding moments between Marianne and her subjects, including Cédric (nonactor Dominique Pupin), a decent if slightly pathetic middle-aged man also looking for work. But its portrayal of cleaning women ultimately feels flat, and it’s not clear whether watching Binoche scrub a few toilets is meant to dignify/humanize those stuck doing such chores, or to underscore the lengths to which she’ll go as an actor. Read full review
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The Irish TimesTara BradyMay 27, 2022
Marianne may learn to “pass” for a cleaner – kind of – but she can never experience the precariousness faced by her subjects. Her idea that these people are entirely invisible is bogus from the get-go. The script wrestles with these problems but it simply cannot overcome them. Read full review
40
EmpireDavid ParkinsonMay 25, 2022
Despite the nobility of its intentions and commitment of its cast, this would-be treatise on gig economical iniquity winds up patronising the very ‘invisible people' it's supposed to be championing. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 16, 2021
Neither of the two worlds of the film’s English title is illuminated clearly enough Read full review
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