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Grand Central Reviews
....WARNING YOU HAVE GOT TO WATCH THE END OF THE CREDITS THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE AS SOMETHING HAPPENES AT THE END OF THE CREDITS THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE........
Romantic drama with a fresh, albeit unusual setting, however it's the sincere performances that make this a joy.
The interplay between Rahim and Seydoux combined with Zlowtoski's direction make this into a nice piece of filmmaking, even if it can be a little heavy-handed with its metaphors.
A French film with excellent scores from the critics is usually a sure fire win for me......alas, not quite this time. Léa Seydoux is as watchable as ever though.
Please believe the audience rating (46%), not the Tomatometer (95%). Rather like last year's Under the Skin, this is a case of style over substance, with a feeling of total disengagement from the characters. It's very nicely shot, with some interesting, almost David Lynch-style discordant music, and the premise promises loads. But it just runs out of steam, like the writer got a "dose" himself halfway through. A nuclear half-life of about 5 minutes. Un peu merde, as they say.
This film has sweat-rings at its armpits, a love triangle at its core - so intense it's practically radioactive, and presents a series of striking visual contrasts, shooting in smooth, almost clinical HD. The plant itself, a real, decommissioned nuclear facility in Austria commandeered for the shoot, becomes virtually a living, breathing character itself, and gives a trully memorable performance, under Zlotowski's watchful eye. That said, the leading characters lack depth and even personality while the script is clumsy and bears certain incoherencies, feeble and underdeveloped arcs. The premise of a love story burgeoning in a realistic yet potentially lethal setting is perhaps clichéd and old but keeps the first half of the film running smoothly despite inharmonious tonal shifts. The second half falls flat and ends ambivalently with a lack of narrative conviction and consistency... Nikaia Private Screening Project (NPSP)
An unlikely set of scenarios but told with subtlety, tenderness. A lovely central love story and beautifully framed scenes.
A clear example of pretentious french filmmaking that neglects it's interesting premise, distinguished cast, and instead, relies on blatant metaphors and a weak romance which is all foreplay and no climax.
This was. Very different kind if love story, because it wasn't very conventional in overflowing the audience with love demonstrations but rather with occasional affairs. The acting from Tahar Rahim & LÃ (C)a Seydoux was very good, and the characters were very odd and hard to read. And maybe that's why I didn't felt as involved with them because it was hard to understand their actions because you didn't don't what was in their minds. However, it did had some emotion to it, as well as some suspense.
Fair. Tahar Rahim & Léa Seydoux are good to watch though.
Hmm. I think the fact that the best of the 5 reviews that appears on my screen when I search for this movie reads "The real moral of the story is that no matter if you're making your life in the shadow of enormous chimney stacks, with danger sirens sounding out regularly, love...can blossom, and perhaps even thrive in the most toxic of environments" speaks volumes about the depth and eloquence of the movie itself. Not painful to watch, however.
An illicit affair/romance under the shadows of a nuclear reactor plant - an unusual concept indeed (not since Silkwood back in the 80s anyway) but the love story at the centre of this is a familiar one. The narrative feels incomplete, if not pointless, often going nowhere despite hinting at characterisation or depth that are never fully explained or explored, when it tries too hard to be enigmatic and ''arty''. The very Continental ending didn't help either. Not bad per se, just not my cup of tea.
Les 3/4 du film sont flous à cause de la faible profondeur de champ systématique, mais le peu qu'on voit est très bien (excellents acteurs)