The Search2015
The Search (2015)
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as Carole
as Helen
as Kolia
as Raïssa
Critic Reviews for The Search
All Critics (19) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (15)
The French director's follow-up to his Oscar-winning silent movie comedy, The Artist, is everything The Artist was not: long, unoriginal and heavy-handed.
Young Hadji's silence gives The Search what lasting power it possesses.
After winning the Oscar for his glorified trinket The Artist, Hazanavicius throws a spotlight on human rights horrors. His well-intentioned children-in-peril story, set during the second Chechen war, is periodically moving but unwieldy and heavy-handed.
An immense (two hours and 29 minutes) and gravely serious film tackling the humanitarian disaster of the Second Chechen War of 1999-2000.
The Search is a lecture. As laudable as the film is in many ways, I'm glad I'll never have to sit through it again.
Hazanavicius has confused sobriety with impact, and mulched down all the stories you might want to tell about Chechnya into a generic, undermotivated wallow.
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