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The Intruder

Original title: L'intrus
  • 20042004
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 2h 10m
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6.7/10
1.9K
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The Intruder (2004)
Drama
An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
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6.7/10
1.9K
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    • Claire Denis
    • Claire Denis
    • Jean-Pol Fargeau
    • Jean-Luc Nancy(novel)
  • Stars
    • Michel Subor
    • Grégoire Colin
    • Yekaterina Golubeva
    • Claire Denis
    • Claire Denis
    • Jean-Pol Fargeau
    • Jean-Luc Nancy(novel)
  • Stars
    • Michel Subor
    • Grégoire Colin
    • Yekaterina Golubeva
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    • 20User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
    • 85Metascore
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    Michel Subor
    Michel Subor
    • Louis Trebor
    Grégoire Colin
    Grégoire Colin
    • Sidney
    Yekaterina Golubeva
    Yekaterina Golubeva
    • La jeune femme russe
    • (as Katia Golubeva)
    Bambou
    • La pharmacienne
    Florence Loiret Caille
    Florence Loiret Caille
    • Antoinette
    • (as Florence Loiret-Caille)
    Lolita Chammah
    Lolita Chammah
    • La sauvageonne
    Alex Descas
    Alex Descas
    • Le prêtre
    Dong-ho Kim
    • Le propriétaire du bateau
    Se-tak Chang
    • L'associé du propriétaire du bateau
    Hong-suk Park
    • L'homme du marché aux poissons
    Edwin Alin
    • Le patron de la quincaillerie
    Henri Tetainanuarii
    • Henri
    Jean-Marc Teriipaia
    • Tony
    Anna Tetuaveroa
    • La mère
    Béatrice Dalle
    Béatrice Dalle
    • La reine de l'hémisphère nord
      • Claire Denis
      • Claire Denis
      • Jean-Pol Fargeau
      • Jean-Luc Nancy(novel)
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    • Trivia
      Archival footage from Paul Gégauff's Le Reflux is used for the scenes with a younger Michel Stubor.
    • Connections
      Edited from Le reflux (1965)

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    7/10
    The nonpareil of free association film making
    Claire Denis has demonstrated repeatedly that film does not need to tell a story, that it is sufficient to create an experience that allows the viewer to take the ingredients and make of them what they will.

    Ostensibly the idea within the framework of a most non-linear film is the older man living on the French-Swiss border, a man devoted to his dogs, who still has a lover, but whose cardiac status increasingly threatens his life. He has a son with a little family who infrequently meet with him, but when he discovers he is in need of a heart transplant he opts for going to Tahiti via Japan to obtain a heart transplant on the black market and to rekindle a long lost relationship with a son he had form a Tahitian women years ago.

    What Denis does with this outline of a story is use her camera to explore the loneliness of the soul, the vastness of nature, man's interaction with people vs animals, etc. Much of the time the 'film' doesn't make sense, but that is because we try too hard to connect all the dots laid out before us in beautiful pictures. Life is sort of like that: we look, see, observe, integrate, process, and make of it what we will.

    In using this form of film making (much as she did in the strangely beautiful 'Beau Travail') Claire Denis has developed a signature technique. Whether or not the viewer finds the finished product rewarding has much to do with our individual methods of processing visual and conceptual information. This is an interesting and visually captivating film, but many viewers will find it an overly long discourse about very little. Perhaps watching again will change that. Grady Harp
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    • May 20, 2006

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    • Release date
      • May 4, 2005 (France)
      • France
      • French
      • English
      • Korean
      • Russian
      • Polynesian
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    • Filming locations
      • Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
    • Production companies
      • Ognon Pictures
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté
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    • 2 hours 10 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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