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Marguerite And Julien
Falling deeply for each other, Marguerite and Julien, two young siblings from the high class, who fall in love with each other since childhood, but they face many oppositions that lead them to flee.
31 July 1944, Santa Monica, California, USA
31 January 1936, Bourg-la-Reine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
21 August 1959, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
6 May 1964, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France
February 26, 2016
For a premise as provocative as an incestuous French fairy tale, this sort of toothlessness is tantamount to a death knell.February 23, 2016
The widescreen intimacy of small moments - the flush of a rain-soaked cheek - humanizes Donzelli's grand folly and the couple who challenge the parameters of morality.November 29, 2016
If it's too misbegotten to fall head over heels with, it's also too sensitively wrought to dismiss outright.February 26, 2016
The excruciating experience of "Marguerite & Julien" need only be endured by viewers with an obsessive interest in the least constructive aesthetic currents in contemporary French cinema.February 22, 2016
It finds its filmmaker completely lost between impulses to pay homage, play it safe, or offer something--anything--new.December 27, 2016
It's just downright odd and doesn't work.February 26, 2016
The wan narrative at hand fails on several levels, including an annoying amount of intentional anachronistic details that detract rather enhance.March 03, 2016
An overheated but haunting, strangely involving tale inspired by the doomed romance between real-life aristocratic French siblings circa 1600.February 25, 2016
Marguerite & Julien's romance is a non-item, but Donzelli sprinkles it with faux naiveté, which has the aftertaste of an artificial sweetener. Who would ever want to see this movie?