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French and Italian language drama about a successful crime writer who moves to Venice, falls in love, and begins to question his new wife's past. Cast:Andre Dussolier, Carole Bouquet, Melanie Thierry, Adriana Asti, Mauro Conte, Alexis Loret, Zoe Duthion, Sandra Toffolatti, Andrea PergolesiDirector:Andre TechineRelease Date:June 29, 2012DVD Release:December 4, 2012From:Strand ReleasingLength:1 hr. 51 min.
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Unforgivable (Impardonnables), Very Good Reviews Key Cities
Unforgivable (Impardonnables) played in key cities to very good reviews. • Bill Weber wrote for Slant, "...a sunny Venetian noir that never quite bursts into full-blown mayhem.... As always, André Téchiné's style is fluid and crucially subjective... characteristically curious..." • And Peter Keough wrote in the Boston Phoenix, "...the pervasive morbidity of Venice holds the narrative together..." More Reviews Below...
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING(cg) "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."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 455 words, 08/10/12
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (7 Reviews)
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "The characters don't necessarily know where anyone is headed (themselves included) and neither do you, but there's never any doubt that Mr. Téchiné has a lock on them."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 722 words, 06/29/12
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Literate, intelligent and a model of accomplished European filmmaking... showcases the kind of emotional complexity that is all but gone from the screen these days."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 650 words, 06/29/12
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: VERY GOOD(cg) "The complicated doings are poised on a knife's edge between absorbing and ludicrous, and the characters' decisions are often, by any rational standard, bizarre."(See all of Farran Smith Nehme's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 247 words, 06/29/12
John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...has a surfeit of characters running around a glorious Venice in search of emotional moorings... warmly entertaining and provocative."(See all of John Anderson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 320 words, 07/20/12
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING(cg) "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."(See all of Roger Ebert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 455 words, 08/10/12
Eric Hynes, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...powered on pure momentum, gallows humor, and slyly ambiguous misanthropy... filleting and exalting its characters, cheating and rewarding its breathless audience."(See all of Eric Hynes's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 216 words, 06/27/12
KEY CITIES (6 Reviews)
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: MODERATE(cg) "As mysteries go, this isn't much of one. The most likely explanation is that the unhappily married woman simply ran off with a drug-dealing Italian playboy..."(See all of Michael O'Sullivan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 469 words, 07/20/12
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD(cg) "...an exquisitely crafted, brilliant, confusing, disordered, maddening, and wonderfully flawed film that tries to show life as it is lived."(See all of Tirdad Derakhshani's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 566 words, 09/07/12
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...an elegantly rambling Franco-Italian affair about the ways we do each other wrong while trying to do each other right."(See all of Ty Burr's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 542 words, 07/20/12
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a leisurely, thickly textured story set in that most absurdly romantic of cities, Venice. Except the romances we see are thorny."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 406 words, 06/29/12
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD(cg) "...not exactly scintillating, but it does something that most movies don't do. It creates the lived-in sense of being in the world of the characters."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 219 words, 08/10/12
John Hartl, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Carole Bouquet and the waterways of Venice are the chief charms of André Téchiné's movie, which is otherwise one of his less convincing efforts."(See all of John Hartl's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 277 words, 08/10/12
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (6 Reviews)
Eric Hynes, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...powered on pure momentum, gallows humor, and slyly ambiguous misanthropy... filleting and exalting its characters, cheating and rewarding its breathless audience."(See all of Eric Hynes's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 216 words, 06/27/12
Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...the pervasive morbidity of Venice holds the narrative together, and a melancholy that companionship, parenthood, and art can't console."(See all of Peter Keough's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 146 words, 07/19/12
Noel Murray, AV Club: MODERATE(cg) "...while the movie is masterfully acted and artfully shot, the jumble of characters and plotlines remain indistinct and removed throughout."(See all of Noel Murray's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 321 words, 06/28/12
Bill Weber, Slant: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a sunny Venetian noir that never quite bursts into full-blown mayhem.... As always, André Téchiné's style is fluid and crucially subjective... characteristically curious..."(See all of Bill Weber's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 487 words, 06/26/12
HIGHBROW PRESS (3 Reviews)
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "The characters don't necessarily know where anyone is headed (themselves included) and neither do you, but there's never any doubt that Mr. Téchiné has a lock on them."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 722 words, 06/29/12
Joel Arnold, NPR: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...its tendency toward realism undermines its own urgency. Even Venice, a visually stunning city in summer, feels like a wasted opportunity..."(See all of Joel Arnold's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 691 words, 06/28/12
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Literate, intelligent and a model of accomplished European filmmaking... showcases the kind of emotional complexity that is all but gone from the screen these days."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 650 words, 06/29/12
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Boyd Van Hoeij, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...its multistrand approach and beautifully played take on complex emotions and issues such as love, desire, parenthood and fidelity are pure Andre Techine."(See all of Boyd Van Hoeij's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 631 words, 05/17/11
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "No one knows the human heart, the film makes clear, for the heart often works against the mind in its pursuit of happiness.... smoothly made..."(See all of Kirk Honeycutt's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 654 words, 05/16/11
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Literate, intelligent and a model of accomplished European filmmaking... showcases the kind of emotional complexity that is all but gone from the screen these days."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 650 words, 06/29/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "The characters don't necessarily know where anyone is headed (themselves included) and neither do you, but there's never any doubt that Mr. Téchiné has a lock on them."(See all of Manohla Dargis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 722 words, 06/29/12
12.9 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Unforgivable (Impardonnables)'s reviews are separated by an average 12.9 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Unforgivable (Impardonnables) (21 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Unforgivable (Impardonnables)'s reviews cover 28.1% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 8,924 words involume (average is 20,172 words). Length:The film's reviews average 425 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 4 Days Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Unforgivable (Impardonnables)'s reviews on average broke 4 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Unforgivable (Impardonnables)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Unforgivable (Impardonnables) (21 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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