Our Children

Name: Our Children
Genre: Drama
Released: August 2, 2013
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 79

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Distrib Films | Release Date: August 2, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Murielle and Mounir love each other passionately. Ever since he was a boy, the young man has been living with Doctor Pinget who provides him with a comfortable life. When Mounir and Murielle decide to marry and have children, the couple's dependence on the doctor becomes excessive. Murielle finds herself caught up in an unhealthy emotionalMurielle and Mounir love each other passionately. Ever since he was a boy, the young man has been living with Doctor Pinget who provides him with a comfortable life. When Mounir and Murielle decide to marry and have children, the couple's dependence on the doctor becomes excessive. Murielle finds herself caught up in an unhealthy emotional climate that insidiously leads the family towards a tragic outcome. [DistriB Films]… Expand

Director: Joachim Lafosse

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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David Fear

Jul 30, 2013

It’s a near-perfect portrait of a domestic tragedy as a master-and-servant psychodrama, one that leaves catastrophic collateral damage in its wake. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Sep 19, 2013

This is a film as powerful as it is painful. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Dec 15, 2013

At this finely tooled tragedy’s core towers Emilie Dequenne, no longer the feral young thing seen in 1999′s “Rosetta,” but a trapped animal pushed to devastating extremes. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Jul 28, 2013

Reteaming to play a duo similar to the one in A Prophet, Rahim and Arestrup maintain the film’s tense and sinister tone – the former providing a convincing mix of fragility and machismo, and the latter looking and acting more and more like Brando in the latter half of his career. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jul 28, 2013

Émilie Dequenne is the young actor who made a powerful debut in the Dardenne brothers' prize-winning film "Rosetta" in 1999, and what a superb performance she gives now in this inexpressibly painful drama. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jul 31, 2013

Though Lafosse’s handling of the actors is pitch-perfect, his sense of structure is more problematic. The decision to start the movie at the end and then jump back several years undercuts the drama. Read full review

The Playlist Drew Taylor

Aug 2, 2013

When the final moment comes and it's revealed how the children died, it's less of a surprise than a shrug. Drama robbed of suspense is just dull. Read full review

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