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Bastards
Directed by
Claire Denis
Not Rated
2013
1h 40m
Drama
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Romance
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6.1
68%
37%
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Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.
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Cast of Bastards
Vincent Lindon
Marco Silvestri
Chiara Mastroianni
Raphaëlle
Julie Bataille
Sandra
Michel Subor
Edouard Laporte
Lola Créton
Justine
Alex Descas
Dr. Béthanie
Grégoire Colin
Xavier
Florence Loiret Caille
Elysée
Jeanne Disson
Audrey
Christophe Miossec
Guy
Hélène Fillières
Banker
Claire Tran
Nurse
Šarūnas Bartas
Foreign Shipowner
Nicole Dogué
Police Inspector
Laurent Grévill
Jacques
Yann Antoine Bizette
Joseph
Élise Lhomeau
Babysitter
Jean-Christophe Folly
Claire Denis
Director / Writer
Jean-Pol Fargeau
Writer
Brahim Chioua
Producer
Laurence Clerc
Producer
Olivier Théry-Lapiney
Producer
Bastards Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
But even if it is merely a sketch or fragment, an elegant offhand gesture, this film is pure Denis and richly unsettling.
The New Republic
David Thomson
This is a film so anxious to be taken seriously that it has evaded seriousness itself.
Film Comment Magazine
Max Nelson
the narrative ellipses that open Claire Denis's murky, rain-soaked, profoundly upsetting film noir could be concealing anything-but it's hard to imagine they're hiding anything you'd want to see for yourself.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The movie ends where it might have begun, and merely states mysteries that remain unexplored.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
"Bastards" is a thriller truly etched in darkness, pools of black broken mostly by the stricken yet soldiering faces of her main characters, like ships in a sea of stormy nights.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
There's nothing wrong with dealing out a dense, noir-like plot in tiny scraps - unless, like "Bastards," the film remains flaccid and tensionless.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Bastards skillfully deploys noir tropes-the alienated hero, the two-timing femme fatale, the ever-widening web of deceit-in the service of a larger political vision.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
An oblique, by-design and frustrating drama ...
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
One of the director's most pitiless visions-a drama as pitch black as the night that envelops its characters.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
Noir is a game of hard shadows and hard cases, but Denis and her team of regular collaborators...approach it with a seductive delicacy that's both fitting for the genre and distinct from it.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
[A] grimly beautiful and somewhat unhinged film ...
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Themes resonate passionately in the moment, but as answers pile up, so too do the cracks in Denis' atmosphere-over-all-else plotting ...
Slant Magazine
Jesse Cataldo
Conditioning the audience to find dread in every seemingly innocent gesture, the film turns even the simplest touch between family members into something tinged with menace.
Variety
Scott Foundas
An insidious web of money, sex and power entangles all the characters in Claire Denis' hypnotic nocturnal thriller.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
The result is the rare case of a movie that confirms its maker's skill while wasting it on useless ambition.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
While Bastards is never less than enthralling while it unravels, its resolution feels shallowly sordid, as if the entire movie was really just a prolonged moralistic scold cleverly disguised as something richer and more mysterious.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
Don't be afraid of the darkness: [Claire] Denis makes it seductive.
Film.com
Jordan Hoffman
Simultaneously surprising and inevitable, all doled out in a dreamlike nature.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
...from such a usually nuanced and thought-provoking auteur, it's hard not to see the film as a minor entry. The Bastards feels like what happens when an undeniably great filmmaker stoops to sensationalism
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
A stylishly made but unyielding drama that will consolidate more than expand director Claire Denis' devoted fan base.
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