The Intruder (2004 film)
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Plot
Louis Trebor, an ex-mercenary living in the Jura Mountains, is suffering increasingly from a heart condition. He abandons his home, beloved dogs, and estranged son in pursuit of a black market heart transplant in Korea before traveling to Tahiti, where he spent time in his youth, in the hope of connecting with a son he has never met.
Cast
Production
The film is inspired by a brief essay of the same name by Jean-Luc Nancy.[1] Claire Denis also takes inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson's writing and Paul Gauguin's South Seas paintings.[2] Footage from Paul Gégauff's film Le Reflux is used in the film.[3]
Release
The film had its world premiere in the Competition section at the 61st Venice International Film Festival on 9 September 2004.[4][5] It was released in France on 4 May 2005.[6]
Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 29 reviews, and an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The impressionistic narrative may confound the viewer, but Denis crafts wonderfully poetic, dreamlike imagery."[7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[8]
Amy Taubin of Film Comment commented that "Denis is one of cinema's greatest narrative poets, and The Intruder, the story of an adventurer, is her most adventurous cinematic poem."[9] Jay Weissberg of Variety wrote, "More opaque than her past works and unlikely to garner her new fans, Denis gives near equal weight to reality, dreams, nightmares and premonitions, resisting a traditional narrative in order to question the possibilities of escape within the modern world."[10]
Slant Magazine placed the film at number 77 on the "100 Best Films of the Aughts" list.[11]
References
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Further reading
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- Dooley, Kath. "Foreign Bodies, Community and Trauma in the Films of Claire Denis: Beau Travail (1999), 35 Rhums (2008) and White Material (2009)." Screening the Past (2013). Accessed May 25, 2017. Template:Open access
- Morrey, Douglas. "Open Wounds: Body and Image in Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis." Film-Philosophy 12, no. 1 (2008): 10–30. Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn". Template:Open access
- Nayman, Adam. "Best of the Decade #7: L′Intrus: Second Helpings." Reverse Shot (December 25, 2009). Museum of the Moving Image. Accessed June 4, 2017. Template:Open access
- Smith, Damon. "L’Intrus: An Interview with Claire Denis." Senses of Cinema 35 (2005). Accessed May 25, 2017. Template:Open access
- Sweeney, R. Emmet. "The Hither Side of Solutions. Bodies and Landscape in L’intrus." Senses of Cinema (2005), no. 36. Accessed May 25, 2017. Template:Open access
External links
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