The Intruder (2004 film)

The Intruder (French: L'intrus) is a 2004 French drama film directed by Claire Denis. The film had its world premiere in the Competition section at the 61st Venice International Film Festival on 9 September 2004. It was released in France on 4 May 2005.

The Intruder
FrenchL'intrus
Directed byClaire Denis
Produced byHumbert Balsan
Written by
Based onL'intrus
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Starring
Music byStuart A. Staples
CinematographyAgnès Godard
Edited byNelly Quettier
Release date
  • 9 September 2004 (2004-09-09) (Venice)
  • 4 May 2005 (2005-05-04) (France)
Running time
130 minutes
CountryFrance
Language
  • French
  • English
  • Korean
  • Russian
  • Polynesian
Box office$40,853[1]

Plot

Louis Trebor, an ex-mercenary living in the Jura Mountains, is suffering increasingly from a heart condition. He abandons his home, beloved dogs, and estranged son in pursuit of a black market heart transplant in Korea before traveling to Tahiti, where he spent time in his youth, in the hope of connecting with a son he has never met.

Cast

Production

The film is inspired by a brief essay of the same name by Jean-Luc Nancy.[2] Claire Denis also takes inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson's writing and Paul Gauguin's South Seas paintings.[3] A footage from Paul Gégauff's film Le Reflux is used in the film.[4]

Release

The film had its world premiere in the Competition section at the 61st Venice International Film Festival on 9 September 2004.[5][6] It was released in France on 4 May 2005.[7]

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 29 reviews, and an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The impressionistic narrative may confound the viewer, but Denis crafts wonderfully poetic, dreamlike imagery."[8] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[9]

Amy Taubin of Film Comment commented that "Denis is one of cinema's greatest narrative poets, and The Intruder, the story of an adventurer, is her most adventurous cinematic poem."[10] Jay Weissberg of Variety wrote, "More opaque than her past works and unlikely to garner her new fans, Denis gives near equal weight to reality, dreams, nightmares and premonitions, resisting a traditional narrative in order to question the possibilities of escape within the modern world."[11]

Slant Magazine placed the film at number 77 on the "100 Best Films of the Aughts" list.[12]

References
  1. "The Intruder". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  2. Sweeney, R. Emmet (July 2005). "The Hither Side of Solutions: Bodies and Landscape in L'intrus". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  3. Dooley, Kath (June 2012). "The Intruder". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  4. Smith, Damon (April 2005). "L'Intrus: An Interview with Claire Denis". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  5. "Venezia 61 - In Competition". Venice Biennale. Archived from the original on 11 October 2004. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  6. "Thursday, September 9, 2004". Venice Biennale. Archived from the original on 11 September 2004. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  7. "L'intrus". AlloCiné. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  8. "The Intruder (L'Intrus)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  9. "The Intruder". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  10. Taubin, Amy (May 2005). "Distributor Wanted: The Intruder". Film Comment. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  11. Weissberg, Jay (17 September 2004). "The Intruder". Variety. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  12. "The 100 Best Films of the Aughts (page 3 of 10)". Slant Magazine. 7 February 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2020.

Further reading
Dooley, Kath. "Foreign Bodies, Community and Trauma in the Films of Claire Denis: Beau Travail (1999), 35 Rhums (2008) and White Material (2009)." Screening the Past (2013). Accessed May 25, 2017.
Morrey, Douglas. "Open Wounds: Body and Image in Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis." Film-Philosophy 12, no. 1 (2008): 10–30. ISSN 1466-4615
Nayman, Adam. "Best of the Decade #7: L′Intrus: Second Helpings." Reverse Shot (December 25, 2009). Museum of the Moving Image. Accessed June 4, 2017.
Smith, Damon. "L’Intrus: An Interview with Claire Denis." Senses of Cinema 35 (2005). Accessed May 25, 2017.
Sweeney, R. Emmet. "The Hither Side of Solutions. Bodies and Landscape in L’intrus." Senses of Cinema (2005), no. 36. Accessed May 25, 2017.
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