SummaryAn American novelist living for a time in London converses with his wife, his mistress, and other female characters he may have dreamed up.
Directed By:Arnaud Desplechin
Written By:Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr, Philip Roth
Deception
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42
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Aug 31, 2021
80
This zig-zagging emotionally perceptive tale of an American writer abroad and the women he has bedded — or perhaps merely written about having bedded — is accomplished French filmmaking the way arthouse denizens like it.
Mar 4, 2022
70
In Desplechin’s implicit view of his artistic heroes and milieu, he turns Roth’s personal story into his own.
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Jul 15, 2022
8
Deception delivers some of the most interesting and engaging dialogue in movie i've ever seen, a miss of a one particular section of a story and nit picky here and there but the rest are good, the movie also fills with great powerful performance by all the cast, there is a lot of great specific conversation scene in the film and overall Deception is a very nice little story telling film.
Dec 19, 2022
4
(Mauro Lanari)
"«Je suis un fétichiste du verbe!»", he says. «I am an écouteur. An audiophiliac. A talk fetishist!»" And that's exactly how it is. From a novel by Philip Roth [1990], a film that is a whirlwind of words. The seduction that passes through the wise dialogue, through the captivating word. This is 'Tromperie': take it or leave it" (Giovanni Bogan). Only the Jews could come up with the idea that speaking and creating coincide (cf. "dabar"). Cui prodest, especially when so much logorrhea corresponds to a disconcerting futility (mental eroticism, intellectual excitement, theatrical psychodrama)?
Aug 31, 2021
60
Arnaud Desplechin’s Deception is a strange, stifling but frequently intriguing attempt to find a cinematic match for the literary voice of Philip Roth, from his autofictional 1990 novel of the same name.
May 20, 2022
38
To give Deception, the latest attempt to bring Roth to the screen, a little bit of credit, it does come closer than most to rendering his prose stylings into cinematic terms. But it does so in a film so lifeless and inert from a dramatic standpoint that few viewers are likely to notice or even care.
May 13, 2022
38
With his Deception, Arnaud Desplechin renders one of a great author’s slighter works titanic by comparison.
Aug 31, 2021
25
Desplechin and his film seem to have a perverse and single-minded fixation not on “dazzling, interesting” women, but lost, tragic ones—women who can gravitate toward and glom onto Philip (Denis Podalydès), an inexplicably francophone version of the author, who lavishes the attention.
Aug 31, 2021
20
A film full of people smiling knowingly and laughing delightedly at each other’s not-especially-funny-or-interesting remarks, and it’s all the more insufferable for things the film gets fundamentally and structurally wrong.
May 26, 2022
3
If you can get past the tedium of its botched intellectual stink and the wasted performance of its lead actors, you might be able to salvage something from this film, which I found very poor and dull, while trying so hard to look and sound smart in order to compensate for its monumental flaw, which is to be of any interest whatsoever.
Production Company:
- Why Not Productions
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- La Région Île-de-France
Release Date:May 20, 2022
Duration:1 h 45 m
Awards
Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
