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Poison Friends
Directed by
Emmanuel Bourdieu
Not Rated
2006
1h 40m
Drama
,
Thriller
6.5
89%
60%
5.4
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A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar
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Cast of Poison Friends
Malik Zidi
Eloi Duhaut
Thibault Vinçon
Andre Mornay
Alexandre Steiger
Alexandre Pariente
Thomas Blanchard
Edouard Franchon
Dominique Blanc
Florence Duhaut
Yves Arnaud
Colonel
Natacha Régnier
Marguerite
Jacques Bonnaffé
Professeur Mortier
Cécile Bouillot
Libraire
Botum Dupuis
Alice
Françoise Gillard
Suzanne
Eugène Green
David Eckhart
Geneviève Mnich
L'éditrice
Saliha Fellahi
Femme de Prof. Mortier
Emmanuel Bourdieu
Director / Writer
Marcia Romano
Writer
Yorick Le Saux
Producer / Director Of Photography
David Mathieu-Mahias
Producer
Mani Mortazavi
Producer
Nicolas de Boiscuillé
Production Design
Poison Friends Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
[Emmanuel Bourdieu] turns a standard coming-of-age premise -- four young literary scholars compete for recognition at a Paris university -- into a biting academic fable.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A much too tidy insightful clinical tale about students dealing with academic life and the pains of growing up.
Murphy's Movie Reviews
Ted Murphy
There are some schematics at work in the screenplay, but the film proves to be an entertaining, if frustrating, experience.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
This clever little film explodes conceptions and presents a good argument for the ends justifying the means.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
The dialogue in "Poison Friends" is clever and erudite, but underneath the lit-crit the film has the atmosphere of a Hitchcockian thriller.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Poison Friends is at once a sly satire on the pretensions and aspirations of academia and an intellectual suspense-thriller that builds and builds but never loses credibility.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's intellectual without being dry, dramatic without bombast, smart without posturing.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
In this observant psychological drama with the energy of a thriller, there's no blood (except for maybe a paper cut) or weapons, but audible gasps will not be out of place.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Sly, subtle and very French psychological drama.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
If you don't take anything Andre says seriously, there is a wicked sense of fun about it, and you may even see a little of yourself in one of the characters.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The movie seems an act of score-settling by someone who got singed by a critic. Fair enough, and Andr's deviousness makes the film slyly credible, too.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Has a degree of energy, an appetite for strong feelings and big ideas, notably missing in American movies about the young and overeducated, which tend to specialize in mumbled ironies and tiny epiphanies.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Four university students band together under the obnoxious mentorship of Andre, who is meant to be brilliant but, to me at least, seemed all too obviously a poseur. His betrayal of his friends deepens the movie.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Promoted as an intellectual suspense thriller, Emmanuel Bourdieu's second feature film is a chilling plunge into the dark pools of group think and a scalding examination of the vulnerability of the unformed identity.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The movie is largely unclassifiable -- at once a psychological study, an exceedingly dry comedy, and a moral tale in which stories are purloined and frauds perpetrated.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Andr's character, even in the depths of his humiliation, remains remarkably dignified and non-self-pitying. That gives this academic melodrama an unexpected depth.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Has little to say about friendship other than that it's sometimes maintained by less-than-kind motives and reciprocated with equal coldness.
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Pic is deft, entertaining and, in its reverence for name-dropping scholarship and the paths by which the chosen few make a name for themselves, thoroughly Parisian.
The Hollywood Reporter
Bernard Besserglik
Student friendships, success and failure make for absorbing entertainment.
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