The Innocent

Name: The Innocent
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Crime
Released: March 17, 2023
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Anouk Grinberg, Jean-Claude Pautot, Léa Wiazemsky, Louis Garrel, Manda Touré

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Janus Film | Release Date: March 17, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Anouk Grinberg, Jean-Claude Pautot, Léa Wiazemsky, Louis Garrel, Manda Touré, Noémie Merlant, Olga Amelchenko, Romain Blachier, Roschdy Zem, Yanisse Kebbab

Summary: When Abel learns that his mother is about to marry a man in prison, he freaks out. With the help of his best friend, he will do whatever it takes to protect her. But meeting his new stepfather may well offer him a new perspective.

Director: Louis Garrel

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Kyle Smith

Mar 16, 2023

Few caper comedies have this much heart, and few romantic dramas offer such an appealingly nutty plot. Read full review

Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Aug 23, 2023

Altogether, the Innocent is a relatively low stakes story of ordinary people doing humbly ridiculous if fairly illegal things – and all the more charming for it. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Aug 24, 2023

Garrel’s The Innocent deftly mixes comic family melodrama with genre thrills in this pacy, emotive thriller with a killer cast. Read full review

Gregory Nussen

Mar 2, 2023

The innocent, it turns out, isn’t a single character but the person inside us all, playing at the version of ourselves we’d rather be. Read full review

Catherine Bray

Apr 6, 2023

This film is a slightly slipperier customer than a topline summary would suggest, with tonal shifts that shouldn’t work, but somehow do. Read full review

Claire Shaffer

Mar 17, 2023

The entertainment value of The Innocent lies not in the actual heist — which amounts to little more than a shipment of caviar at a truck stop — but in its lighthearted comedy, its by-the-numbers romance plot and its relatable family drama grafted onto an absurd premise. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Mar 2, 2023

This likeable, terribly contrived charmer is helped by a game cast that almost gets away clean, ultimately hampered by a script that impishly (but not always confidently) switches between tones. Read full review

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Mauro_Lanari

Apr 17, 2023

(Mauro Lanari)
As Truffaut and Moretti, Garrel continues his semi-autobiographical worldbuilding with a double romcom in a dysfunctional family. The axolotl-like eccentricity of the heist movie context, of the caricatural characters and of the forced black humor results in a frivolous melò(Mauro Lanari)
As Truffaut and Moretti, Garrel continues his semi-autobiographical worldbuilding with a double romcom in a dysfunctional family. The axolotl-like eccentricity of the heist movie context, of the caricatural characters and of the forced black humor results in a frivolous melò underlying a meta-recitative analysis that I didn't feel the need for. The end credits are accompanied by Gianna Nannini's song "I maschi" (1987), "history is female" and I'm tired of hearing that repeated.… Expand

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