Fresh
[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.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Overview
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Director and cast
- Emmanuel Bourdieu Director
- Malik Zidi as Eloi Duhaut
- Thibault Vinçon as Andre Mornay
- Alexandre Steiger as Alexandre Pariente
- Thomas Blanchard as Edouard Franchon
- Dominique Blanc as Florence Duhaut
- Yves Arnaud as Colonel
- Natacha Régnier as Marguerite
- Jacques Bonnaffé as Professeur Mortier
- Cécile Bouillot as Libraire
- Botum Dupuis as Alice
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
It's intellectual without being dry, dramatic without bombast, smart without posturing.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
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.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Turgid ivory-tower drama.
David Fear, Time Out New York
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