Synopsis
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...
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Cast
- Laurent LucasAlain Getty
- Charlotte GainsbourgBénédicte Getty
- André DussollierRichard Pollock
- Charlotte RamplingAlice Pollock
- Jacques BonnafféNicolas Chevalier
- Véronique AffholderFrancine
- Michel CassagneLe vétérinaire
- Florence DesilleL'infirmière
- Emmanuel GayetLe médecin de garde
- Félix GonzalezFélix, le fils du voisin
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
Rampling has a relatively small role in Lemming, but the 60-year-old star proves the high point of the suspenseful black comedy from France. - 75
New York Daily News
By the end, you may not know whether you've seen a ghost story or a story of delusional obsession, but you'll have had a great time. - 70
Variety
Spooky, intellectually titillating and darkly funny picture is definitely the kind of film where the less you know going in, the better. - 70
Village Voice
Exhilaratingly anxious, Dominik Moll's new film Lemming charts familiar territory but does it with gravity and panache. - 70
L.A. Weekly
Like Michael Haneke's "Caché," this effectively creepy little customer from Dominik Moll (With a Friend Like Harry) fires yet another shot across the bows of French bourgeois complacency, while throwing in a wink and a nudge about the perils of surveillance. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The acting is serviceable and primarily of the stare-until-you're-uncomfortable variety, although Rampling is much more than that: She's a classic screen temptress with the aura of a melancholy spider. - 67
The A.V. Club
The film is much more intriguing in its dread-inducing opening half, when Moll's assured direction keeps suggesting that something horrible will be happening soon, then, when it does, that something even more horrifying may follow. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
The film's main attractions are the Charlottes, but the price of watching their eerie psychological pas de deux is to endure muddled metaphors and goofy gadgetry.
