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While the young people chatter about life and literature with sometimes overbearing self-satisfaction, the astute filmmaker observes their pretentious gum-flapping with a mixture of amusement, compassion, and wised-up rue.Full Review
A movie so unrepentantly French that viewers who enjoy truly Gallic pics can start (tastefully) salivating now.Full Review
Not for nothing did this movie open the International Critics' Week (and win its grand prize) last year at Cannes; Poison Friends may be all talk, but it's cut like an action flick.Full Review
Steeped in shrewdness about the often contradictory workings of human nature, Poison Friends is gratifying in the best tradition of French cinema.Full Review
Bourdieu's cast is terrific throughout. Any fellow academic brats out there will especially appreciate Jacques Bonnaff, one of the greatest French comic actors, in an imperious turn as the severe, guru-like professor.Full Review
