Synopsis
Along the Côte d'Opale, near a hamlet, with its dunes and marshes, lives a mysterious wanderer from nowhere who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires...
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Cast
- David DewaeleLe gars
- Alexandra LemâtreElle
- Christophe BonLe garde
- Juliette BacquetLa gamine
- Aurore BroutinLa routarde
- Sonia BarthélémyLa mère de la gamine
- Valérie MestdaghLa mère
- Dominique CaffierL'homme au chien
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
Dumont's rigorous, serious attention to the mysteries of good, evil, and faith rewards those willing to be confounded. - 80
The Guardian
Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film "Humanity" – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling. - 80
Empire
Bleak and compelling. - 75
Slant Magazine
Bruno Dumont's employment of his bucolic French backdrop here attends to Hors Satan's muddying spiritual ambiguity. - 70
Village Voice
Ultimately less an arty provocation than a secular invocation, Outside Satan seems almost helplessly exploratory, an honest account of groping for grace. - 60
Total Film
The vagueness won't win Dumont new fans, but his enigmatic allegory of intertwined good and evil does linger in the mind. - 60
The New York Times
Despite its pictorial intensity and the extremity of some of its scenes, the film proceeds in a mood of detachment, turning the suffering physical beings under its scrutiny into abstractions. - 58
IndieWire
The problem with Outside Satan is that the filmmaker has remained faithful to expectations without enlivening them. It's a curious exercise unworthy of his expertise, but then he may realize as much.
