SummaryFrancis is a successful crime writer who moves to Venice to work on his next novel. When he meets model-turned-real-estate-agent Judith, he is instantly infatuated. Francis and Judith eventually marry and move to a remote house on Torcello Island but Francis’ newfound happiness hinders his writing. Obsessing over what Judith does while at work, h... Read More
Directed By:André Téchiné
Written By:André Téchiné, Mehdi Ben Attia, Philippe Djian
Unforgivable
Metascore
Generally Favorable
67
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6.8
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Metascore
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69% Positive
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Aug 8, 2012
88
What makes the film involving is that it doesn't depend on the mechanical resolution of the plot, but on the close observation of its effects on these distinctive characters.
Jun 27, 2012
83
In his elliptical and somewhat loopy drama about the slipperiness of love at any age, French filmmaker André Téchiné uses the sight of scudding motorboats on the waterways around workaday Venice as a visual reinforcement of time as a river.
Jun 29, 2012
75
Both Venice and Bouquet are photographed to ravishing effect, and like the city, Judith is meant to suggest something trapped into being a fantasy for others.
Jun 28, 2012
70
Téchiné is a restless director, a fastidious storyteller who is not interested in what less adventurous movies have to say about human relationships. He wants to dig deeper, even if the results aren't always clear.
Jul 19, 2012
63
Everyone is equal parts emotional victim and villain in Unforgivable, an elegantly rambling Franco-Italian affair about the ways we do each other wrong while trying to do each other right.
Jun 26, 2012
60
While Unforgivable stays true to this approach, its disparate souls feel too scattershot to be interwoven into a meaningful narrative tapestry.
Jun 26, 2012
50
It's some kind of monster of romanticized antiromanticism, filleting and exalting its characters, cheating and rewarding its breathless audience. The closest the film gets to a thesis is this shoulder-shrug torpedo: "People do things like that without knowing why."
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Jan 10, 2013
4
There appears to be well-crafted elements in service to an intriguing story when this movie starts, but it becomes less engaging and credible as the time goes by. The male lead has no charisma or animation, positively stunning us with boredom whenever he's on screen. The female lead is marginally better, but seems to have no motive for a range of silly acts. Ultimately, though we've peeked around a lot of corners, there is really nothing much to find out. Reasonably pretty view of Venice though.
Production Company:
- SBS Films
- C.R.G. International
- TF1 Droits Audiovisuels
- France 3 Cinéma
- Soudaine Compagnie
- Cofinova 7
- Coficup
- Backup Media
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- France Télévisions
- Eurimages
Release Date:Jun 29, 2012
Duration:1 h 51 m
Rating:R
Tagline:You can't escape the sins of your past.
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Film by the Sea International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
