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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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04.07.06
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A foreign woman named Catherine (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who has just moved to the city, is mugged and helped by a guy she ends up soon marrying. The building in which they live has some strange neighbors, including Nastassja Kinski who is an art. She had had an affair with Catherine's new husband but no one wants to talk about it. None of them want to talk about her husband's previous wife, either, who has shot to death in a break in.
Soon, though, Catherine suspects that her husband is having an affair, especially when she finds her things rearranged in the apartment. She confronts him but he denies any wrongdoing. Then, she finds the wife's diary, which says she suspects her husband of cheating on her. The writings get more and more paranoid-and reflect the feelings that Catherine is now feeling. The mystery woman even leaves cryptic messages-and kills one of her friends by pushing her out a window.
In a total, unexpected and weird twist, it turns out that it is indeed her husband's former wife. Somehow (it's explained by another one of the building's odd residents, who is a mathematician) time has gotten mixed up and Catherine and this other woman are able to see each other and exist in the same space. It's no big surprise when we find out that Catherine is the one responsible for shooting her in the first place.
INTRUDER has some good actors (Gainsbourg, Kinski, Molly Parker and John Hannah) who are totally wasted with this convoluted, amateurish and nonsensical story. It is as if the writer was making it up as he went along-and he didn't know where he was going.
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Rating: 9.5 out of 10.0 - 2 votes cast total
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