Boris Without Béatrice

Name: Boris Without Béatrice
Genre: Drama
Released: September 8, 2017
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Bruce La Bruce, Dany Boudreault, Denis Lavant, Dounia Sichov, Isolda Dychauk

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K Films Amerique | Release Date: September 8, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Bruce La Bruce, Dany Boudreault, Denis Lavant, Dounia Sichov, Isolda Dychauk, James Hyndman, Laetitia Isambert-Denis, Louise Laprade, Olivier Aubin, Simone-Élise Girard

Summary: Boris Malinovsky is an affluent, successful businessman who comports himself with an extreme degree of pride and arrogance. When his wife, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is rendered nearly catatonic by a mysterious depression, it triggers a series of events that brings Boris to the point of professional, personal, and evenBoris Malinovsky is an affluent, successful businessman who comports himself with an extreme degree of pride and arrogance. When his wife, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is rendered nearly catatonic by a mysterious depression, it triggers a series of events that brings Boris to the point of professional, personal, and even existential crisis. His attempts to repair his relationships with his wife and estranged daughter are complicated by his affair with a colleague, and the dangerous relationship that develops with his young housekeeper. And to make matters worse, Boris has to contend as well with an enigmatic, threatening, and uncannily all-knowing figure (Denis Lavant). … Expand

Director: Denis Côté

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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The Film Stage Giovanni Marchini Camia

Mar 18, 2016

Much like the film’s clinical cinematography, which is dominated by consistently striking yet lifeless tableaux, Côté’s theorem is closed in on itself, failing to produce interesting results. Read full review

IndieWire Michael Pattison

Mar 18, 2016

Côté often frames his protagonists in such precise compositions that the world they inhabit is inescapably artificial and symbolic, rather than dramatic. Read full review

Justine Smith

Mar 18, 2016

Beautiful to look at, the film showcases Côté’s talents at building tone and theme through images and sounds. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Mar 18, 2016

Cote’s film is consistently interesting without making the self-involved Boris’s plight in any way compelling. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Sep 6, 2017

Boris Without Béatrice never feels like the work of an artist who actually believes in everything he’s doing. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Sep 7, 2017

Denis Côté’s Boris Without Beatrice appears to have something to say about the hubris of the modern business tycoon, but it never coalesces into more than a self-amused goof. Read full review

David Rooney

Mar 18, 2016

This is a laborious film that dulls the human drama at its core. Rather than pulling you into the protagonist's gradual acquaintance with his unfamiliar conscience, it shuts you out, leaving you bored and indifferent. Read full review

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