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Partisan
Directed by
Ariel Kleiman
Not Rated
2015
1h 38m
Drama
,
Thriller
5.8
58%
38%
6.1
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Alexander, a boy who has been raised in a sequestered commune, finds that his increasing unwillingness to fall in line puts him on a collision course with Gregori, the society's charismatic and domineering leader.
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Cast of Partisan
Vincent Cassel
Gregori
Nigel Barber
Karaoke Detective
Jeremy Chabriel
Alexander
Florence Mezzara
Susanna
Sosina Wogayehu
Penelope
Timothy Styles
Gary
Katalin Hegedus
Magdalena
Daniel Vernikovski
Andre
Zsofia Stavropoulos
Bella
Kai Caster
Alexander (uncredited)
Ariel Kleiman
Director / Writer
Sarah Cyngler
Writer / Production Design / Costume Design
Anna McLeish
Producer
Sarah Shaw
Producer
Steven Jones-Evans
Production Design
Vanessa Cerne
Set Decoration
Maxine Dennett
Art Direction
Germain McMicking
Director Of Photography
Angela Conte
Hair Designer
Natasha Kutrovacz
Set Costumer
Partisan Ratings & Reviews
The Blue Lenses
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Partisan combines an inventive story, exquisite cinematography, a wonderful 80s-style electro soundtrack ... and perhaps most of all, provides a space for the greatest performance of Vincent Cassel's career.
The Film Stage
Jordan Raup
A patiently unfolding drama that displays the lengths one will go to provide shelter and community, and what happens if you step out of bounds.
Contactmusic.com
Rich Cline
With his feature debut, young Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman tells a creepy story about a cult-like commune, anchored by a riveting performance from French actor Vincent Cassel.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Jeremy Chabriel is arresting as the increasingly uneasy youngster, and director and co-writer Ariel Kleiman proves adept at both world-building and attention-focusing.
Under the Radar
Sarah Winshall
Vincent Cassel's primal physicality and threatening charm are front and center in this taut dystopian fable.
Los Angeles Times
Martin Tsai
It's hard to tell if director and co-writer Ariel Kleiman is being serious or sarcastic with a story this preposterous.
RogerEbert.com
Susan Wloszczyna
A moody drama that employs a dystopian-type premise that is not too far afield from a typical young-adult book series although with loftier aspirations and a less propulsive pace.
New York Times
Helen T. Verongos
Usually, partisans stand for something, but in this movie, which is stripped of a specific time frame and relevant geopolitical context, the term becomes hollow.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Ambiguity proves the undoing of a potentially interesting story in "Partisan," the first feature by Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman.
Seattle Weekly
Brian Miller
On one level, Alexander is the freedom-fighter and Gregori the corrupt old tyrant, like Ceaușescu, Miloević, or Tito. On another, you wish Partisan were more pointed in its writing, more connected to an outside, modern world.
Film Journal International
Simi Horwitz
Dark, chilling, impressive film about the training of child assassins in a sequestered commune led by a charismatic figure, played to perfection by Vincent Cassel.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Maddeningly vague.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Partisan is too obscure to appeal even to American arthouse crowds. It's too obscure and uneventful, ultimately, for its own good.
San Francisco Chronicle
Leah Garchik
Perhaps it's a date movie for sadists.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Ariel Kleiman fashions an erotic atmosphere of dusty sensuality that complicates our judgement of this world, but he takes shortcuts.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Partisan's lack of interest in providing necessary context - especially about the ill-defined larger society that Gregori rejects - leaves it operating on a hazy psychological level.
Examiner.com
Travis Hopson
It's rare that a filmmaker has the level of confidence shown by Kleiman, who never feels the need to guide us through "Partisan" point by point.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
"Partisan" is slow and it is ambiguous but supremely sure of itself, as it moves, with singleminded grace from chilly to all-out chilling.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Conventional narrative detail is certainly not a requirement, and many directors can sustain a movie based on little more than suggestion and mood. But Partisan begins to feel like a short film treatment stretched beyond its limits.
Variety
Ben Kenigsberg
A pint-size killer gains a conscience in Ariel Kleiman's confidently told debut feature.
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