The Intruder

Name: The Intruder
Genre: Drama
Released: December 23, 2005
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 85

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: December 23, 2005

Summary: A mysterious and enthralling story about fresh starts and the possibility of escape, both a tale of inner and outer traveling. The film follows the global travels of an enigmatic 68-year-old man (Subor) who goes looking for a long-lost son and a new organ to replace his ailing heart. (Wellspring)

Director: Claire Denis

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 130 min

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Sean Axmaker

The texture and intensity of the odyssey makes it spellbinding. Read full review

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Wesley Morris

Enigmatic as it is, The Intruder dares us to see movies as visual marvels tethered to humanity. Read full review

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Dennis Lim

The Intruder, is a decisive breakthrough--her (Claire Denis) most poetic and primal film to date, as thrilling as it is initially baffling. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Exhilarating and exhausting, the kind of picture you don't bounce back from immediately. Yet its elusiveness is the very source of its poetic energy. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The best way to enjoy The Intruder is to surrender to its poetry without demanding cut-and-dried explanations. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

A beautiful, complex work that challenges viewers to mentally sift interior and exterior journeys. Read full review

Ray Bennett

Surrealism is one thing, but The Intruder appears so ill defined and random that it ends up looking simply inept. Read full review

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Aug 20, 2006

If you crave any sort of narrative thread, certainty, or literal message this film wil probably annoy you. If, instead, you surrender to Denis' fascinating storytelling, allow the gorgeous cinematography to saturate you and cherish the gaps in understanding that give the film its If you crave any sort of narrative thread, certainty, or literal message this film wil probably annoy you. If, instead, you surrender to Denis' fascinating storytelling, allow the gorgeous cinematography to saturate you and cherish the gaps in understanding that give the film its meaning then you'll emerge from viewing this as one does after falling fully clothed into a river with an erratic and often powerful current: grateful, disturbed and breathless. Life, like "The Intruder," isn't Cartesian. Get over it and get with it.… Expand

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VanC.

Dec 30, 2005

No one makes visual poetry better than Claire Denis. This movie has same slow pacing and gorgeous photography as Beau Travail, but with an even more elusive plot and even less dialogue. Give yourself over to it and you'll be rewarded with ecstacy.

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msic

Mar 23, 2006

Possibly Denis' most eliptical film, and that's saying something. It's clearly not for everybody. But it's captivating even when it doesn't make conventional "sense." It's more like a death-dream, really. And Agnes Godard's cinematography is succulent as Possibly Denis' most eliptical film, and that's saying something. It's clearly not for everybody. But it's captivating even when it doesn't make conventional "sense." It's more like a death-dream, really. And Agnes Godard's cinematography is succulent as usual. A fine farewell to the late, great Wellspring.… Expand

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CarlosI.

Feb 17, 2007

This is the second worst international film I have ever seen. The worst one was "Tequila 5" Incredibly erratic and baffling plot. Continuity errors in many scenes, lack of logic with unexplained disjointed violent scenes. This is one of those movies that "enligthened" snobs will advertise This is the second worst international film I have ever seen. The worst one was "Tequila 5" Incredibly erratic and baffling plot. Continuity errors in many scenes, lack of logic with unexplained disjointed violent scenes. This is one of those movies that "enligthened" snobs will advertise as poetic or surrealist, but I just see that the Emperor has no clothes.… Expand

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