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The Great Pretender
Directed by
Nathan Silver
NR
2018
71m
Drama
,
Comedy
,
and more
5.8
70%
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The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically in this tangled and darkly funny roundelay set in the New York theater world.
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Cast of The Great Pretender
Esther Garrel
Therese
Keith Poulson
Chris
Maëlle Poesy-Guichard
Mona
Linas Phillips
Nick
Craig muMs Grant
Barry
Julian Grady
Henry
Danelle Eliav
Hannah / Producer
C. Mason Wells
David
Emilie McDonald
Loretta
Bruce Smolanoff
Jerri
Nathan Silver
Director
Jack Dunphy
Writer / Producer
The Great Pretender Ratings & Reviews
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Warren Cantrell
Silver has done something really special with all of this, bringing the stories of these four people together in a sort of relationship mélange that speaks to the ways people can't help but miss the forest for the trees.
Newcity
Ray Pride
The offhanded, piercing quality of the comedy within the viper's nest of romantic roundelays suggests a cruel Alan Rudolph, and that's more than enough for me.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Self-delusion is the principal subject of this short, acerbic comedy by Nathan Silver.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Flashbacks and fantasies, plus wry inserts of film clips and complex overlaps of art and life, adorn-for that matter, overwhelm-the story, which is built on flimsy psychological clichés amid the implacable imperatives of desire and disease.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
The energetically crafted, well-acted movie about characters one would go to considerable extremes to avoid in real life is turning into a veritable indie micro-genre.
AwardsCircuit.com
Christopher James
The Great Pretenders fails at every genre it pretends to be.
Film Inquiry
Kristy Strouse
The Great Pretender manages to illustrate the irrefutable truth that life and romance is messy, but also quite entertaining.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The punchlines are dark and the tone is caustic, but its central concern is a classic one: what we see in other people and how we would like to see ourselves.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
This film is a beautiful and beguiling art object.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Unfortunately, as with so many of Silver's films, the endless self-absorption of the characters on display quickly wears thin.
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