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Lemming

  • 20052005
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 9m
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6.7/10
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Charlotte Gainsbourg and Charlotte Rampling in Lemming (2005)
DramaMysteryThriller
After developing a flying web-cam Alain has his boss and wife over for dinner. She turns up to be very rude, and the same night Alain finds a live rare Scandinavian lemming clogging up the k... Read allAfter developing a flying web-cam Alain has his boss and wife over for dinner. She turns up to be very rude, and the same night Alain finds a live rare Scandinavian lemming clogging up the kitchen sink. The night things start going wrong.After developing a flying web-cam Alain has his boss and wife over for dinner. She turns up to be very rude, and the same night Alain finds a live rare Scandinavian lemming clogging up the kitchen sink. The night things start going wrong.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
5.2K
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    • Dominik Moll
    • Gilles Marchand
    • Dominik Moll
  • Stars
    • Laurent Lucas
    • Charlotte Gainsbourg
    • Charlotte Rampling
    • Dominik Moll
    • Gilles Marchand
    • Dominik Moll
  • Stars
    • Laurent Lucas
    • Charlotte Gainsbourg
    • Charlotte Rampling
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    • 43User reviews
    • 70Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
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    John Woo and Agnès Varda at an event for Lemming (2005)
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    Alexander Payne at an event for Lemming (2005)
    Salma Hayek, Javier Bardem, Emir Kusturica, Fatih Akin, Nandita Das, and Benoît Jacquot at an event for Lemming (2005)
    Billy Zane at an event for Lemming (2005)
    Catherine Deneuve at an event for Lemming (2005)
    Catherine Deneuve at an event for Lemming (2005)
    Catherine Deneuve at an event for Lemming (2005)
    Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Laurent Lucas, and Dominik Moll at an event for Lemming (2005)
    Charlotte Rampling at an event for Lemming (2005)

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    Laurent Lucas
    Laurent Lucas
    • Alain Getty
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
    • Bénédicte Getty
    Charlotte Rampling
    Charlotte Rampling
    • Alice Pollock
    André Dussollier
    André Dussollier
    • Richard Pollock
    Jacques Bonnaffé
    Jacques Bonnaffé
    • Nicolas Chevalier
    Véronique Affholder
    • Francine
    Michel Cassagne
    • Le vétérinaire
    Florence Desille
    • L'infirmière
    Emmanuel Gayet
    • Le médecin de garde
    Félix Gonzales
    • Félix, le fils du voisin
    Nicolas Jouhet
    • L'employé des eaux
    Fabrice Robert
    • Bruno
    Natacha Boussaa
    • Une call-girl
    Luc Thelliez
    • Getty's Neighbour (Felix' Father)
      • Dominik Moll
      • Gilles Marchand
      • Dominik Moll
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The film opened the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Micmacs (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      The Lounge Is All Right
      Performed by Philippe Ours (piano, trumpet)

      Malik Fettis (saxophone)

      Alex Zanotti (drums)

    User reviews43

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    Got stuck in the kitchen sink
    I've recently been going through a couple of French films that lean heavily on the suspense. The French know their business. They make dozens of these every year. One might label them simply as thrillers. Some recent ones; this one, Haneke's CACHÉ (2005) (half-Austrian, all right), THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (2005) together with Chabrol's - mostly late '60s - work. This dream-like suspense-yarn compares rather unfavourably to the other films mentioned. This is mostly due to the rather ridiculous subtext of the titular Lemming (the framework is built around the mysterious appearance of a dead lemming in the kitchen sink of a young couple). Furthermore, Charlotte Rampling's character behaves in such an abnormal way, it becomes too much to swallow. In a dream sequence, thousand of lemmings appear in the home of Alain Getty, the central character. But his wife, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, has an almost equally important part. Perhaps I misread the whole thing and this was all a highly associative nightmare sprung from the main characters' minds. In that case, not a very pleasant one. It's quite suspenseful up to a point, but after a while the characters begin to behave in such an irrational (and stupid) fashion, it becomes very tedious. I just wanna know what happened to the lemming?

    Camera Obscura --- 5/10
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    • Feb 23, 2007

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    • Release date
      • May 11, 2005 (France)
      • France
      • Diaphana - synopsis, photos
      • French
    • Also known as
    • Filming locations
      • Midi-Pyrénées, France
    • Production companies
      • Diaphana Films
      • France 3 Cinéma
      • Canal+
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    • 2 hours 9 minutes
      • Color
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      • Dolby Digital

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