It's a fascinating, unique and affirmative film about the revolutionary act of self-expression, and the connection between backroom intellectual inquiry and broad public thinking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2020

This film is an ordeal that I never want to go through again, but it's undoubtedly executed with a cerebral conviction and uncompromising seriousness that no Anglo Saxon film-maker could approach.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2020

Though Serra certainly looks upon, and stages, their taboo-breaking with a droll sense of humor, there's plenty of grim transgression to be found here.

| May 12, 2020

Serra, a cinematic character himself who parades around the festival circuit in dark shades making deadpan declarations, makes movies that dare you to operate on his wavelength - and then works overtime to make that investment worthwhile.

| Original Score: B+ | May 4, 2020

"Liberté" plays an arguably specious moral and intellectual game, poking around the porous areas between squalor and perdition, and ultimately producing a pictorial and aural container of tedium.

| Apr 30, 2020

What Liberté also illustrates, only too well, is how something that might once have been daring can now feel de rigueur.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 30, 2020

Liberté conjures a sustained ambiance and eroticism that's unique to the language of cinema.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 5, 2019

Discipline and Punish could have made a title for this instead of the near meaningless handle it has since it requires discipline to withstand and is a punishment to endure.

| May 22, 2019

With its Sadeian overtones, and glumly perverse excesses, this is not a particularly enjoyable experience.

| May 19, 2019