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Liberté

2019

Albert Serra

Helmut Berger, Marc Susini, Baptiste Pinteaux, Iliana Zabeth ...

4.8

717

Drama Anno 1774, shortly before the French Revolution. Somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. A group of French libertines have escaped the new, ultra-conservative government of Louis XVI. They then meet with legendary German freethinker and seducer Duc de Walchen (Helmut Berger). In a country ruled by a hypocritical regime of virtue, the mission of this group of expats under the leadership of the cunning Duchesse de Valselay (Ingrid Caven) is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Marshall Shaffer SlashFilm	"Even in spite of the many variations of erotic expression, gluttony quickly gives way to monotony. Pardon the crass sexual metaphor, but Serra isn’t making love with 'Liberté' – he’s just masturbating"	NEG
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"It's as if a bunch of horny grad students decided to loot a costume store and then remake 'Salò', or the '120 Days of Sodom' with camera phones, but less fun."	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Serra’s work has a poetic charm percolating beneath its provocative exteriors, as if the very idea of merging the formalities of the past with vulgar flourishes registers as a grand historical punchline"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"This is not a particularly enjoyable experience (...) [It requires] a lot of work for little return"	NEG
Canada	Dustin Chang Screen Anarchy	"'Liberté' goes on a little too long but it’s still a fascinating ride."	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"A pictorial and aural container of tedium."	NEG
	Bénédicte Prot Cineuropa	Besides its pace and its length, the film goes far beyond cerebral cinema which requires effort to be understood (...) [It] is along the very same lines as that embarked upon by the director in his two previous films"	POS
United States	Ethan Vestby The Film Stage	"This is both Serra’s most uncompromising film and his most enjoyable"	POS

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