Strayed Critic Reviews

Once in a great while a film seems right in every detail. Andre Techine's Strayed ("Les Egares") is such a film.Read the full review

André Téchiné's beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed drama Strayed has less to do with the events and moral choices of the era that continue to shape French identity than with the timeless psychological effects of finding oneself unmoored from the familiar.Read the full review

What makes this film special, as in his other films, is the getting there. Téchiné is the master of subtle shifts in mood, an acute delineator of psychological interplay, and therefore demands the utmost of his actors.Read the full review

A taut, suspenseful, linear approach, and a trio of excellent performances. Read the full review

It begins with a montage of devastating black-and-white news clips interwoven with flashes of the flight of a terrified young widow and her two children. After that, the movie softens somewhat, but it never succumbs to sentimentality. Read the full review

Strayed has the strange clarity of a fable. It strips everything away until only instincts and emotions are left. Read the full review

Begins and ends with facts of war, but it is really a film about the nature of male and female, about middle-class values and those who cannot afford them, about how helpless we can be when the net of society is broken.Read the full review

A disturbing drama about the dehumanizing and humiliating effects of war.Read the full review

Hardship and suffering don't drive this movie so much as a romantic's gloss on the two. Read the full review