Synopsis
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
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Cast
- Malik ZidiEloi Duhaut
- Thibault VinçonAndre Mornay
- Alexandre SteigerAlexandre Pariente
- Thomas BlanchardEdouard Franchon
- Dominique BlancFlorence Duhaut
- Yves ArnaudColonel
- Natacha RégnierMarguerite
- Jacques BonnafféProfesseur Mortier
- Cécile BouillotLibraire
- Botum DupuisAlice
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 90
Variety
A movie so unrepentantly French that viewers who enjoy truly Gallic pics can start (tastefully) salivating now. - 80
Salon
Bourdieu's cast is terrific throughout. Any fellow academic brats out there will especially appreciate Jacques Bonnaffé, one of the greatest French comic actors, in an imperious turn as the severe, guru-like professor. - 80
Village Voice
Not for nothing did this movie open the International Critics' Week (and win its grand prize) last year at Cannes; Poison Friends may be all talk, but it's cut like an action flick. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Four university students band together under the obnoxious mentorship of Andre (Thibault Vinçon), 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. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
This sly, subtle and very French psychological drama dissects the relationship between three insecure Sorbonne students and their deeply flawed idol. - 75
New York Post
Poison Friends deftly sketches the fine line - is there one? - between "critic" and "loser." - 75
New York Daily News
If, unlike his friends, 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.