SummaryWhen Abel learns that his mother is about to marry a man in prison, he freaks out. With the help of his best friend, he will do whatever it takes to protect her. But meeting his new stepfather may well offer him a new perspective.
Directed By:Louis Garrel
Written By:Louis Garrel, Tanguy Viel, Naïla Guiguet, Jean-Claude Carrière
The Innocent
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Generally Favorable
68
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Metascore
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75% Positive
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Mar 16, 2023
90
Few caper comedies have this much heart, and few romantic dramas offer such an appealingly nutty plot.
Aug 23, 2023
80
Altogether, the Innocent is a relatively low stakes story of ordinary people doing humbly ridiculous if fairly illegal things – and all the more charming for it.
Mar 2, 2023
75
The innocent, it turns out, isn’t a single character but the person inside us all, playing at the version of ourselves we’d rather be.
Apr 6, 2023
70
This film is a slightly slipperier customer than a topline summary would suggest, with tonal shifts that shouldn’t work, but somehow do.
Aug 22, 2023
60
The result, if you can get past some of its absurdities, is a slight, enjoyable, lightweight jaunt. Just don’t expect anything more.
Mar 2, 2023
50
This likeable, terribly contrived charmer is helped by a game cast that almost gets away clean, ultimately hampered by a script that impishly (but not always confidently) switches between tones.
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Apr 17, 2023
4
(Mauro Lanari)
As Truffaut and Moretti, Garrel continues his semi-autobiographical worldbuilding with a double romcom in a dysfunctional family. The axolotl-like eccentricity of the heist movie context, of the caricatural characters and of the forced black humor results in a frivolous melò underlying a meta-recitative analysis that I didn't feel the need for. The end credits are accompanied by Gianna Nannini's song "I maschi" (1987), "history is female" and I'm tired of hearing that repeated.
Production Company:
- Les Films des Tournelles
- Arte France Cinéma
- Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
- Cofimage 33
- La Banque Postale Image 15
- Giorgio Armani
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- ARTE
- Ad Vitam
- Wild Bunch
- Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Release Date:Mar 17, 2023
Duration:1 h 39 m
Awards
César Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 11 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 4 Nominations
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
