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Clean
Directed by
Olivier Assayas
R
2004
1h 51m
Drama
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Romance
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6.8
73%
66%
6.4
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After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
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Cast of Clean
Béatrice Dalle
Elena
Jeanne Balibar
Irène Paolini
Nick Nolte
Albrecht Hauser
Maggie Cheung
Emily Wang
Don McKellar
Vernon
Martha Henry
Rosemary Hauser
James Johnston
Lee Hauser
James Dennis
Jay
Rémi Martin
Jean-Pierre
Laëtitia Spigarelli
Sandrine
Arnaud Churin
Store Manager
Kurtys Kidd
Detective
Shaun Austin-Olsen
Record Label Owner
Jodi Crawford
Gloria
Ross McKie
Vancouver Police 1
Calum de Hartog
Vancouver Police 2
Clare-Marie Grigg
Cafeteria Nurse
Paul Brogen
Motel Clerk
Joana Preiss
Aline
David Salsedo
Jeff
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Clean Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Howard Hampton
The one-two combination of Nolte's essential generosity and decency as an actor with Cheung's innate levelheadedness nicely gets around the customary trumped-up "conflict" movies over-rely on.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A disappointment.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Maggie Cheung gives an astonishingly complex performance as a junkie rock star trying to clean up her act.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
There are so many quiet, understated miracles unfolding in Clean that all you can do is watch in awe and amazement.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It helps -- immensely -- that Cheung is pitch-perfect. Her performance is heartbreaking.
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
It's a joy to watch the characters in this grown-up drama interact, their exchanges laced with anger and doubt, sadness and regret.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
One of the most emotionally honest movies about drug addiction ever made. Well, maybe not addiction per se, but rather the attempt to disgorge oneself from heroin's grip.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Emily is played by Maggie Cheung with such intense desperation that she won the best actress award at Cannes 2004. Only a few actresses in the world could have handled this role from a technical point of view.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It's a complex, very successful portrayal of an addictive, selfish, volatile soul who knows she might be running out of chances at a decent life.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Assayas tells her tale sympathetically, but this sad saga lacks substance. He sells the wretch but not the redemption.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's a globe-trotting drama with more than a touch of Wim Wenders whim to it.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It's the moral journey of Nolte's character that is the real story in Clean, but Assayas instead focuses on the manipulative habits of an addict, resulting in a mannered study of narcissism and self-pity.
Slate
John DeFore
In Clean, Assayas returns to his comfort zone -- the world of appealing young people with interestingly chaotic lives -- and views it through the eyes of a woman who doesn't belong there anymore.
San Francisco Chronicle
John McMurtrie
Despite Cheung's efforts (she won the best actress award at Cannes in 2004) and a strong and subtle supporting performance by Nick Nolte, the story could have used a good dose of adrenaline to keep it from often seeming lifeless.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
The film that showed the world Maggie Cheung is more than just a strikingly beautiful face.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
Assayas' tale of the difficult search for redemption is less a standard road-to-sobriety story than a chance to marvel, close-up, at Cheung.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
One of those movies that's slightly off the mark in ways that are hard to put a finger on, but it is shot so soulfully and features such beautiful performances that it's easy to forgive the occasional false note.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The chief pleasure in the picture is Nick Nolte's performance.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Mr. Assayas has given us an international soap opera with little or no dramatic substance.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
Visually assured, beautifully acted, it's a movie of scrupulous straightforwardness - so matter of fact that you scarcely expect the emotional wallop it delivers at the end...
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