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The Thorn in the Heart
Directed by
Michel Gondry
Not Rated
2009
86m
Documentary
6.1
52%
48%
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Michel Gondry chronicles the life of Gondry family matriarch, his aunt Suzette Gondry, and her relationship with her son, Jean-Yves.
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Cast of The Thorn in the Heart
Suzette Gondry
Herself
Jean-Yves Gondry
Himself
Michel Gondry
Himself / Director / Writer
Georges Bermann
Producer
The Thorn in the Heart Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Brimming with affection and beautifully shot, but it builds a flimsy case for why it matters.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Anyone can make a crappy home movie, but it takes an especially self-important one to think anyone other than their own family wants to watch it.
Moving Pictures Magazine
Annlee Ellingson
Thorn is Gondry's most personal film, so personal as to be indulgent. But what emerges is his sincere affection for his aunt and a moving emotional experience.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
This is an extraordinary film.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Stylishly filmed, [but] too slight, lazy and not nearly as moving or insightful as it could have been with more piercing and provocative interviews.
About.com
Jennifer Merin
Like a guest invited to a family reunion, you feel a bit uncomfortable, question why you're there and wonder how long the event will last.
New York Times
Mike Hale
As Mr. Gondry unfolds the story of her life, and of her inability to connect with the son she sees as weak, you can understand why it would consume a family(TM)s interest, but you(TM)re not sure why he thought it would pique ours.
Boxoffice Magazine
Pam Grady
The movie rarely flags, but it is hard to get past the notion that what is onscreen is nothing more than an artfully made home movie and that the Gondry family saga is no more interesting than that of the average loving, if somewhat dysfunctional family.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
So-so documentary about filmmaker Michel Gondry's gregarious elderly aunt and her reminiscences of family and long years teaching kids in rural France. Clearly a joy for nephew Gondry and his aunt, but maybe this should have been kept en famille.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The film is well-constructed, as one would expect from Gondry, but it offers little reason for anyone outside the family circle to care about dear old Tante Suzette.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
The film's opening -- a family dinner where favorite dishes are discussed -- suggests a liveliness that the film never fully realizes
AV Club
Noel Murray
The Thorn In The Heart's home-movie-style images are frequently lovely and the film has flashes of poignancy, but Gondry never fully gets across why the specifics of this family history should interest anyone outside his circle.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
You can see that he meant it to be a toasty slice of nostalgia - and for Gondry, it surely is. For us, The Thorn in the Heart is more like a home movie of a family reunion we weren't invited to.
Village Voice
Karina Longworth
Watching Thorn is like being helplessly locked out of an inside joke.
New York Press
Armond White
Gondry makes you look into the screen -- makes you invest -- during an era when most moviemakers simply want to distract you.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
A frequently mundane ramble that doesn't often put its raison d'tre on the screen.
Cinematical
Todd Gilchrist
while I don't begrudge the esteemed director pursuing a subject slightly closer to home, I reserve the right to not want to watch it myself
Variety
Justin Chang
Inevitably smaller-scaled than his mind-bendingly creative features, this moving but far from revelatory portrait of a beloved family figure registers as too slight and personal for significant theatrical play.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
The title raises expectations of angst a-plenty, but the tone throughout is one of warm regard; you could make a documentary about some random octogenarian plucked off the street and have a good shot at stumbling onto a more eventful and interesting life.
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
"The Thorn in My Heart" should be intriguing to all who know the family, as well as to cineastes yonder at the arty film schools who will lap up its elliptical/self-reflexive style. Normal people will simply walk out on it.
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