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11/13/07
Calvaire (2005)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:7
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: After a late-night gig, a lost lounge singer whose car has broken down stumbles into a terrible and secluded hotel where a series of atrocious--and increasingly violent--events take place.
Starring: Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Brigitte Lahaie, Philippe Nahon
Director: Fabrice Du Weltz
Reviews for Calvaire
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01/20/07
A black comedy with flashes of genius, but let down by a sharp slide into chaos.
04/01/06
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02/09/06
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12/10/05
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09/25/09
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04/29/09
a surrealist fairy tale bringing gothic glee to its meditations on performance and passion.
08/02/07
A glossy rehash that's far less interesting and frightening than the classics upon which it's unimaginatively modeled.
01/11/07
if you've got a black sense of humor you might just find yourself laughing down the vomit.
12/29/06
Du Welz has definite visual-dramatic talent. (Calvaire was a Cannes festival pick.) But, like Norman Bates' car, he need to get pulled out of the swamp.
10/26/06
What sells this movie is the realistic attention to detail and the bravura direction of Fabrice Du Welz, who draws a gut-wrenching performance from Lucas.
10/06/06
Not so much scary as just plain brutal.
10/05/06
So dead-set on being disturbing that it ends up tripping over its own hobbled feet and evoking fewer gasps than curdled little giggles.
09/23/06
Completely gratuitous. Don't bother.
08/21/06
By the time it reaches its final act, the film rivals its American counterparts in intensity if not quite in explicit violence.
08/14/06
Top CriticNaming one character after cult director Paul Bartel is obvious enough, but why saddle the other with the moniker of a notorious '70s porn star?
08/12/06
Director-co-writer Fabrice du Welz has taken a clichéd premise and infused it with a stylish perversity that should have horror fans squealing with delight.
08/12/06
Director Fabrice Du Welz doesn't reinvent the backwoods-freakshow formula, but there is something undeniably entertaining about violent psychos who are also committed art lovers.
08/12/06
Often more haunting and disturbing for what you don't see than for what you do.
08/11/06
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