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The Five Devils

Les cinq diables

2022

Léa Mysius

Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sally Dramé, Swala Emati, Moustapha Mbengue ...

6.5

868

Drama. Thriller. Fantasy Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie, a man struggling to find his place. When Vicky's aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way.

	Author	Review
United States	Beatrice Loayza The New York Times	"Smell is perhaps the most opaque of the five human senses; the one that’s hardest to put into words. No wonder it's key to the uncanny intrigues of the film"	POS
Canada	Shelagh Rowan-Legg Screen Anarchy	"Dramé is confident and more than a little scary in her first role; Exarchopolous lets her character's inner demons and growing anger over bad decisions flick across her face and body"	POS
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Mysius goes all out here, but her film overshoots its target by a few miles, even if the mise-en-scène is inspired and lead Adèle Exarchopoulos excellent as always."	NEU
United States	Elena Lazic The Playlist	"From its first beginning, 'Les cinq diables' feels like the inevitable encounter of indestructible drives, which send sparks flying both when they are satisfied and when they are denied"	POS
United States	Valerie Complex Deadline	"'Les cinq diables' seek to expose the truth while covering topics that manage to make sincere, magical realist cinema with a message that the things we want will come to us, but only when we’re ready"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"Buoyed by two outstanding performances, 'The Five Devils' is a finely-crafted drama-genre hybrid, let down only by the fact that the story is a lot less interesting than the themes it carries"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The movie is less than the sum of its elaborately odd parts (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"The kind of film that's so accomplished that it will leave the viewer wanting more in the best ways possible"	POS
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"Compelling, existential exploration of memory (...) The film exudes an exquisite command of atmosphere and aesthetic language (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"If 'Les cinq diables' more bravely embraced a single perspective, that might have better bound together its depiction of a family splitting apart (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Dramé is a wonder, and Exarchopoulos is excellent as ever, grounding this dreamlike fable in a believable mother-daughter relationship (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Sophie Monks Kaufman IndieWire	"To the end, Mysius retains the sense of her film being a glistening and mysterious object, you can watch but can't touch"	POS
United States	Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"Exarchopoulos has a raw presence that suggests an exciting unpredictability. We see that side of her talent eventually in 'Les cinq diables', but only in sporadic flickers (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"The... director is more ambitious than she is successful this time around"	NEG
United Kingdom	Sophie Butcher Empire	"Adèle Exarchopoulos excels in this dark, elemental drama. A sensory delight that marks Léa Mysius as a filmmaker to get excited about (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Hughes Time Out	"It is fundamentally a love story, and a surprisingly affecting one, largely due to a captivating central performance from Exarchopoulos (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"Alluring and sneakily emotional film"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"A surfeit of storytelling ambition is the only thing that threatens to upend this otherwise startling second feature from Léa Mysius (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Alistair Ryder The Film Stage	" A transfixing time-travel tale about familial bonds"	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"'Les cinq diables' requires two remarkable performances from Dramé and Exarchopoulos to anchor the film-maker's swirling imagination (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"Despite strong directing skills and spectacular mountain settings, it seems as though the director got carried away by an attractive idea on paper, but one which is very delicate"	NEU

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