Innocence 2005

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Hadzihalilovic has arrived as a director to reckon with. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Innocence is full of charm and strangeness -- and a sense that childhood is a place of incredible terrors and fleeting joys, of rapt innocence and fatal experience. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I can't recommend this film to my readers, because I don't happen to trust its motives. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Read more

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Gene Seymour, Newsday: What you feel at the end is nostalgia; not just for your childhood curiosity, but for a time when movies boldly allowed suggestion and shadow to control their momentum. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A visually lush and eerily enigmatic parable of female sexuality, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's ominous fairy tale raises questions you'll be wondering about for days. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The line between cinematic art and exploitation has rarely seemed finer and nervier, at least in recent memory, than in the French film Innocence. Read more

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Dennis Harvey, Variety: Withholding basic expository material, and unpredictably restless in its focus, Innocence both rivets and challenges emotional engagement. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Innocence is not merely the year's best first film, but one of the great statements on the politics of being 'tween. Read more