Septien
IFC Films | Release Date: July 8, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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75
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreJul 7, 2011
The setup and storyline are absurd, but the angst underneath is as earnest as a campfire confession. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirJul 7, 2011
There's an unkillable something at the heart of Septien, an artistic ambition that's not calculated or cynical, that feels homegrown American but is thoroughly resistant to totalitarian spectacle and the manufactured tides of mass opinion. There's no substitute for that. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisJul 14, 2011
A microscopic piece of shoestring weirdness-slash-hipster regionalism that the actor Robert Longstreet delivers into some odder, funkier, altogether mysterious place. I don't know what he's doing or what he's going for. But unlike the rest of the movie, his bizarreness seems authentic rather than forced or put on. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoJul 26, 2011
A traditional southern gothic, Septien delivers oddities from the perverse to the parochial with a straight face, and in the process restores the oddball genre to what might be called authenticity. Read full review
60
Time OutSam AdamsJul 5, 2011
As intriguing as the movie is, there's the sense that its free-associative story line has been dredged up from its maker's unconscious and recounted without filter or shape. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJul 5, 2011
Like many films early in a director's career, it plays more as a sketchbook of intended future endeavors than as a cohesive and fully realized vision in its own right. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweJul 5, 2011
Weakly spoofing, or at least deliberately tweaking, Southern Gothic conventions, writer-director Tully can't fully get his arms around this messy genre mashup. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis HarveyJul 5, 2011
Duly offbeat without ever being very compelling in content or aesthetic. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick PinkertonJul 5, 2011
Never the same movie for five minutes straight, Septien can't sit still. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJul 7, 2011
A lackadaisical dive into backwoods barminess and masculine neuroses, this low-budget paean to indoor plumbing and rampant facial hair doesn't unfold so much as unravel. Read full review
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