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Article: French film'Innocence' both delightful, disturbing.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2005
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Byline: Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Dec. 16--Lucile Hadzihalilovic's odd, affecting French film "Innocence" is an unashamed art picture, the kind of film where extreme aestheticism mixes with nightmare dread, where the story resembles a bad dream and where Freudian symbols cluster around the events like a swarm of insects. It's a very pretty film, but it's also lean, enigmatic and so obscure--with echoes throughout of the 1920s French avante-garde and German expressionism--that it will delight and madden audiences by turn. (That's certainly the way I reacted.)
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