Innocence
Leisure Time Features | Release Date: October 21, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Hadzihalilovic succeeds brilliantly at crafting a meaningful enigma that somehow grasps the essence of adolescence, but only grows more mysterious with each revelation. Read full review
100
New York PostV.A. Musetto
One of the oddest, most perplexing -- and delightful -- films to come along this year. And last year, too. Read full review
100
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Confronts the line between the celebration and the exploitation of innocence with an uneasy tension that is discomforting at best. Read full review
90
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Innocence is not merely the year's best first film, but one of the great statements on the politics of being 'tween. Read full review
80
VarietyDennis Harvey
This genuine curio maintains its mystery to the end. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The line between cinematic art and exploitation has rarely seemed finer and nervier, at least in recent memory, than in the French film Innocence. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
This is the weirdest film I've seen all year, or at least the weirdest good film. It's also among the most powerful. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A visually lush and eerily enigmatic parable of female sexuality, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's ominous fairy tale raises questions you'll be wondering about for days. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
An unashamed art picture, the kind of film where extreme aestheticism mixes with nightmare dread, where the story resembles a bad dream and where Freudian symbols cluster around the events like a swarm of insects. It's a very pretty film, but it's also lean, enigmatic and so obscure. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterSura Wood
Sustains a pervasive feeling of anxiety and suspense, despite an absence of dramatic conflict or resolution. Read full review
70
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
The Oxford English Dictionary says that an allegory is "an extended or continued metaphor." And to think that this definition was coined when a French film called Innocence was still very far in the future! But how aptly this film proves the point. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderRonnie Scheib
Hadzihalilovic, the wife of cinematic agent provocateur Gaspar Noé and his sometime collaborator, has created a work of limpid beauty and eerie menace that some undoubtedly will dismiss as kiddie porn. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
The more overtly allegorical Innocence becomes, the duller it gets. Read full review
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