SummaryPaul Exben is a handsome and successful thirty-something Parisian corporate lawyer with a beautiful wife, two children, and a glimmering future as a partner in the firm he co-owns with his mentor, Anne. But behind this deceptively perfect bourgeois façade lies a desire for creative fulfillment, a restless spirit who despises his conformist life a... Read More
Directed By:Éric Lartigau
The Big Picture
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62% Positive
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Oct 12, 2012
90
Paul is not a sociopath like Tom Ripley, and the movie does not convey the same diabolical Hitchcockian sense of being manipulated by a slightly sadistic master puppeteer. As the story sprawls across the screen, it darts from one incident to the next as though it were inventing itself as it goes along.
Oct 25, 2012
75
The movie feels loose and unpredictable. You're never sure where Paul or the story is going, and while that makes The Big Picture unexpectedly gripping for much of its running time, the shapelessness ultimately wins out.
Oct 11, 2012
70
The Big Picture has been compared to "The Talented Mr. Ripley," the twice-filmed Patricia Highsmith novel about a sociopath who kills and then impersonates a rich acquaintance. But in spirit it's closer to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 "The Passenger," with Jack Nicholson as an existential adventurer who poses as a dead stranger.
Oct 10, 2012
60
Built around a multilayered performance from Duris, it's a film unafraid to pose more questions than it answers.
Oct 10, 2012
60
The direction from Eric Lartigau keeps things moving along fast and furious: preposterous it may be, the movie is carried off with some style.
Oct 10, 2012
50
Like its protagonist, the film sells out for the security of convention and complacency.
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Aug 24, 2013
8
Compelling crime and redemption tale about a lawyer who invents a new life for himself by assuming the identity of another man, but not without complications. Romain Duris gives a strong, fascinating performance that succeeds in creating sympathy for what in other hands might well have been an unlikeable, unredeemable character. Recommended for fans of Patricia Highsmith's "Tom Ripley" novels as well as fans of Romain Duris.
Production Company:
- EuropaCorp
- TF1 Films Production
- CiBy 2000
- Canal+
- CinéCinéma
- Cofinova 6
Release Date:Oct 12, 2012
Duration:1 h 54 m
Awards
César Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
CineLibri International Book and Movie Festival
• 1 Nomination
