Unforgivable (2012)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 2
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Francis (André Dussollier) is a successful crime writer who moves to Venice to work on his next novel. When he meets model-turned-real-estate-agent Judith (Carole Bouquet), 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, he hires a young ex-convict to investigate. As Judith's sexual past is revealed both men become increasing fixated on
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Cast
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André Dussollier
Francis -
Carole Bouquet
Judith -
Mélanie Thierry
Alice -
Adriana Asti
Anna Maria -
Mauro Conte
Jérémie -
Alexis Loret
Roger -
Zoé Duthion
Vicky -
Sandra Toffolatti
La Comtesse -
Andrea Pergolesi
Alvise
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All Critics (34) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (8)
An exquisitely crafted, brilliant, confusing, disordered, maddening, and wonderfully flawed film that tries to show life as it is lived.
Top CriticIt creates the lived-in sense of being in the world of the characters.
Bouquet and the waterways of Venice are the chief charms of Téchiné's movie, which is otherwise one of his less convincing efforts.
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.
[Unforgivable] sets out as an account of unusual lives, finishes as a portrait of a society -- one that lives between the conventional and the openly low.
It's clearly the work of a master storyteller, conveying a rich, novelistic sense of character and a poetic feeling for the passing of time.
Francis's fluster-as evinced by Dussollier and nurtured by Téchiné-makes for a pleasure both subtle and mildly sadistic.
Techine's latest is rich in emotional intrigue
Though the movie lasts a reasonably brief 107 minutes, Téchiné is in no hurry to reveal his characters. We're still learning about them in the last few scenes, and our loyalties and attractions change.
Flat and a bit stale, like the characters. Not one of Téchiné's finest.
Unforgivable is a bit too relaxed to function as a thriller. Though admirably unpredictable, its plot is also spread thin among these fickle lovers.
The pervasive morbidity of Venice holds the narrative together, and a melancholy that companionship, parenthood, and art can't console.
The multi-layer cake story has one or three too many.
...a roundelay of obstinacy and desire, where lives are lived on their own terms, fiercely.
In "Unforgivable," Téchiné keeps throwing out teasing ideas, but he never makes good on any of them.
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- Judith: Your problem is that everyone is turned on by you, but you are turned on by no one.
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- Unforgivable (Impardonnables) (DE)
- Unforgiveable (Impardonnables) (UK)
If the movie "Unforgivable" has one thing going for it, it is the city of Venice which been filmed many times before, but not quite like this as it smartly explores the dividing line between tourist and resident. Outside of its setting and the very fine acting, the movie has more than its share of flaws, starting with the derivative jealousy storyline involving Judith's past and present, although I do like the line about her turning others on but nobody turning her on which definitely reminds of me of a former friend. And then there are the other tangents in this rambling narrative which at least serve in the telling the intriguing story of this extended family, of which Anna Maria is the most interesting and ironically given the shortest shrift. What would have worked better is a more compact narrative in a controlled structure.