Curiosa: reviews

What the critics say average 4.0 from 3 outlets

• 6.0 CinemaníaJanire Zurbano Although it doesn't reach the stylistic perfection and the exquisite atmosphere of intimacy of the recent 'Portrait de la jeune fille en feu', 'Curiosa' captivates by its lack of inhibition and fine sensuality, with a cast devoted to the erotica. It reveals itself as a calling to the political incorrectness and the female independency, so loud and necessary at this moment as it was the figure of Marie de Régnier back in her day. Read
• 6.0 El PeriódicoQuim Casas The director Lou Jeunet and her cowriter, Raphaëlle Desplechin, sister of the director Arnaud Desplechin, have sketched the portrait of Marie de Régnier, an influential French writer and freethinker from the beginning of the twentieth century, that allows them to reclaim the sex, the curiosity for the body and the erotism as a liberation. Read
• 0.0 El PaísJavier Ocaña 'Curiosa' is not only the biographical sketch of a rare woman, it's also the sketch of a fascinating time and place, liberating for the people who had the courage and the intelligence of not being dragged. Jeunet is also filled with that courage when she took the boldest decision in her first movie: these images go with a electronic and experimental pop soundtrack, created by Arnaud Rebotini Read