Liberté
Cinema Guild | Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2
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91
The Film StageEthan VestbyFeb 12, 2020
This is both Serra’s most uncompromising film and his most enjoyable. In a way, it’s perhaps a stunning refute to the notion of “edgelord” as pejorative term; someone has to deliberately provoke to show us something we haven’t seen before. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnMay 4, 2020
The movie is a visual investigation into the roots of sexual liberation in societies steeped in repression. Watching it from start to finish is a means of engaging with the inquiry at its center. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineCarson LundSep 5, 2019
Though betraying the markings of its original form in its small revolving ensemble, single location, and frequent tableau staging, Liberté conjures a sustained ambiance and eroticism that’s unique to the language of cinema. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 2, 2020
This film is an ordeal that I never want to go through again, but it’s undoubtedly executed with a cerebral conviction and uncompromising seriousness that no Anglo Saxon film-maker could approach. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubLawrence GarciaApr 29, 2020
For the most part, though, Liberté is a drearily alienating experience; Serra’s depictions are characterized mainly by studied grotesquerie and tedious monotony. Read full review
50
Film ThreatLorry KiktaOct 4, 2019
Liberté is shocking, but it is staged as banally as possible. Read full review
40
Screen DailyWendy IdeOct 4, 2019
With its Sadeian overtones, and glumly perverse excesses, this is not a particularly enjoyable experience. It will be best suited to the more experimental fringes of the festival circuit and to audiences who thought that Salo: 120 Days Of Sodom was too much fun. Read full review
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The New York TimesGlenn KennyApr 30, 2020
Explicit but in no sense pornographic — it’s rather like antimatter with respect to pornography — Liberté plays an arguably specious moral and intellectual game, poking around the porous areas between squalor and perdition, and ultimately producing a pictorial and aural container of tedium. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinOct 4, 2019
It's as if a bunch of horny grad students decided to loot a costume store and then remake Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom with camera phones, but less fun. Read full review
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