Scarlet

Name: Scarlet
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Released: June 9, 2023
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Athénaïs Sifaoui-Blanc, Ernst Umhauer, François Négret, Inès Es Sarhir

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: June 9, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Athénaïs Sifaoui-Blanc, Ernst Umhauer, François Négret, Inès Es Sarhir, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, Raphaël Thierry, Yolande Moreau

Summary: Beginning as the tale of a sensitive brute (Räphael Terry) who returns home from World War I to his rural French village to discover his wife has died and that he must take care of their baby daughter, Juliette, the film blossoms into a pastoral portrait of Juliette as a young woman (Juliette Jouan) reckoning with a local witch’s prophecyBeginning as the tale of a sensitive brute (Räphael Terry) who returns home from World War I to his rural French village to discover his wife has died and that he must take care of their baby daughter, Juliette, the film blossoms into a pastoral portrait of Juliette as a young woman (Juliette Jouan) reckoning with a local witch’s prophecy for her future and falling for the modern man (Louis Garrel) who literally drops from the sky. Based on a the 1923 novel by Russian writer Alexander Grin.… Expand

Director: Pietro Marcello

Genre(s): Drama, History, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Robert Abele

Jun 23, 2023

Classify Pietro Marcello’s sweet new film Scarlet at your own risk, because its pleasures are as diverse and unexpected as a stroll through uncharted lands: Mapping the terrain wouldn’t be half as enjoyable as letting the place host its own truths and enchantments. Read full review

Sumner Forbes

Jun 8, 2023

For those following the career trajectory of Pietro Marcello, the feature works as another example of a nuanced filmmaker delivering a surprisingly different kind of cinematic experience. At its core, this is a memorable portrait of a father-daughter relationship and the power of dreams above all. Read full review

The Film Stage David Katz

Oct 25, 2022

With a work like Scarlet, so gossamer-airy and enchanting that it could almost be family-adjacent viewing like Petite Maman, we are witnessing Marcello in a mercurial, mid-career stage, watching his sensibility truly take shape. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Oct 25, 2022

It’s not groundbreaking stuff, but Marcello has a talent for making such material come alive through his inventive direction, whisking us away to a time and place that we experience as if we were actually there. It’s not enough to make Scarlet a great movie, but it’s one that manages to puts us in its shoes the way few films nowadays do. Read full review

Lisa Nesselson

Oct 25, 2022

Quietly rewarding thanks to an excellent cast whose faces we observe in frequent close-ups as their dirt-poor characters do their very best with scant resources. Read full review

Ben Croll

Oct 25, 2022

It’s a bit of a mess, no doubt about that, but a fascinating one. Read full review

The Playlist Rafaela Sales Ross

Oct 25, 2022

The arresting visual competency of Scarlet, which includes the clever use of archival footage previously seen in Marcello’s Venice darling “Martin Eden” and the beautifully composed textures of its cinematography, can’t salvage its muddled pace. Read full review

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Mauro_Lanari

Sep 8, 2023

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An extraordinarily experimental direction devastated by a screenplay that continually shifts the narrative center of gravity until it reaches nothingness. "Encouragement not to give up in the face of difficulties": but if he literally dies of fatigue? "Novella on the(Mauro Lanari)
An extraordinarily experimental direction devastated by a screenplay that continually shifts the narrative center of gravity until it reaches nothingness. "Encouragement not to give up in the face of difficulties": but if he literally dies of fatigue? "Novella on the importance of dreams", "fatherly love will help Juliette to become a free and proud woman": where, how, when, in an epilogue so vague as to prevent us from understanding both her concrete desire and in what way would she fulfill it by running away with a ludopathic adventurer? Would this be fairytale lyricism, magical realism, suggestive and moving spell? "Pietro Marcello's images appear increasingly on the verge of vanishing [...] 'L'envol' is an impalpable object" (Sergio Sozzo), "a film that cannot fly even in its most successful part [...] and ends [in] the formal (self)satisfaction" (Simone Emiliani).… Expand

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