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A Tout de Suite

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A Tout de Suite (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 43 Fresh: 30  Rotten:13 Average Rating: 6.6/10
 
Consensus: A mesmerizing performance by ingenue Isild Le Besco makes this stylish French drama a taut, compelling escapade. A mesmerizing performance by ingenue Isild Le Besco makes this stylish French drama a taut, compelling escapade. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Synopsis:
A stylish, erotically charged thriller, À Tout de Suite is the highly anticipated new film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot (Sade, A Single Girl). Based on actual events, it tells the story of sexy, free-spirited Lili, a Parisian art student who falls for a charismatic bank... [More]
A stylish, erotically charged thriller, À Tout de Suite is the highly anticipated new film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot (Sade, A Single Girl). Based on actual events, it tells the story of sexy, free-spirited Lili, a Parisian art student who falls for a charismatic bank robber and joins him on the run, a dizzying cross-continent escape through Spain, Morocco and Greece, when a sudden betrayal leaves her stranded in the middle of nowhere. Visually stunning, À Tout de Suite is a mesmerizing account of one woman's breathtaking journey of self-discovery. © -- Cinema Guild [Less]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Islid Le Besco, Ouassini Embarek, Laurence Cordier, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Director: Benoit Jacquot
Screenwriter: Benoit Jacquot
Producer: Georges Benayoun, Raoul Saada

DVD Info

Release:

Dec 12, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Widescreen - 1.78

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - Frech
  • Subtitles - English, French - Optional

Additional Release Materials:

  • Outtakes - Extended Scenes
  • Trailers - Theatrical Trailers

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02/09/06 03:17 AM
Geoff Andrew
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Should deliver to that core of filmgoers who respond to anything French, edgy, well-reviewed and well-done.

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03/01/07 03:54 AM
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International
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Stylish but pointless and bland romantic thriller.

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02/28/07 05:27 PM
Dennis Schwartz
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10/30/06 03:19 AM
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Despite the film's infectious style and the powerful charisma of its leading performers, it doesn't really catch fire.

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05/26/06 03:17 AM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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A Tout de Suite contains a sufficient amount of action and suspense but it’s also quite the literary picture.

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12/06/05 08:12 PM
Stina Chyn
Film Threat
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09/26/05 03:16 AM
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09/26/05 03:16 AM
Marrit Ingman
Austin Chronicle
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If you're not careful, A Tout De Suite--Benoit Jacquot's ode to the French New Wave, infused with his love of American crime classics 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Badlands'--will fool you.

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08/25/05 03:58 PM
Allison Benedikt
Chicago Tribune
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The film's retro appeal includes black-and-white cinematography and a Truffaut-esque fascination for parallels between the characters' wild flight and filmmaking itself as a wide-eyed, open-ended experience.

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08/19/05 02:49 PM
Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
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Crazy things certainly happen to Lili, but Le Besco drifts through most of the proceedings as though she were following a checklist: long face (done), three-way with lithe Athenians (yup), the occasional suggestion of zombietude (mission accomplished).

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08/19/05 02:48 PM
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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... a painful and poignant film at once empathetic and critical, more soberly unnerving than exciting, but never less than compelling.

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08/18/05 09:53 PM
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Opaque stares and pregnant pauses can only pull so much weight, no matter how snazzy the packaging.

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08/18/05 01:59 PM
Andrew Wright
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
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A Tout de Suite is a sometimes-interesting film, particularly its first 30 minutes, but runs on long after the intrigue ends...

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08/12/05 01:24 PM
Robin Clifford
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Benoit Jacquot's drama creates a sense of dislocation with its impossible-to- predict-what-will- happen-next plot, jumpy black-and-white cinematography, elusive characters and casual approach to the time in which it's set.

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08/04/05 06:40 PM
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
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This is a film of disturbing emotional power and frank sexuality that is photographed in sensuous black and white.

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08/04/05 04:07 PM
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Thoroughly assured as a piece of art, and bears rewards worth enduring stretches of palled uneventfulness.

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07/31/05 05:52 PM
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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Jacquot has really excelled at recreating another era - the movie feels like a lost New Wave film just coming to light.

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07/11/05 03:07 PM
Laura Clifford
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07/05/05 06:37 PM
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Whether focused on Lili's face or standing back to take in her long limbs, Caroline Champetier's enthralling black-and-white camerawork is at once nimble and evocative.

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07/01/05 12:06 PM
Cynthia Fuchs
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