Story of the Eye
ARM/Cinema 25 Pictures Inc. | Release Date: September 22, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
2
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Film ThreatPhil Hall
The results are either darkly comic and tragic, depending on the viewer's mindframe. But McElhinney's route to these results, as with the Bertolucci, is nothing short of stunning. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDave Kehr
It is a strange, beautiful, disturbing and at times literally painful work, an original and distinctive expression by a gifted young Philadelphia-based filmmaker who here confirms the talent he displayed in his 2001 film, "A Chronicle of Corpses." Read full review
60
VarietyDennis Harvey
Evaluating this project in conventional feature terms is a lost cause; relevant contexts are purely avant-garde and pornographic. Suffice it to say that helmer's careful attention to framing camera, music and content signal primary allegiance to Art rather than Smut. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The less time you've devoted to thinking about the nature and uses of the erotic imagination, the more challenging this will seem. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Bataille was a serious philosopher as well as a sensation-seeking writer, but you'd never guess his provocative ideas from this updated version. Read full review
20
Village VoiceEd Halter
This skin-deep flick is merely art-school sophomoric, unwittingly cornball, and counterrevolutionary. Read full review
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