Arthur Harari's 'The Unknown' Premieres to Warm Reception
Arthur Harari's new film, 'The Unknown,' starring Léa Seydoux, has premiered to a warm nine-minute standing ovation, despite reviews describing it as a bizarre and gratuitously serious body-swap psychodrama. The film is a contender for the Palme d'Or.
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The Unknown review – Léa Seydoux gets invaded in uncanny and bizarre body-swap horror
Cannes film festival: A man is terrified to wake up in Seydoux’s body in this metempsychotic mystery film about gender identity Arthur Harari’s film is adapted from a graphic novel he wrote with his brother Lucas called The Case of David Zimmerman. It is a doomy, murky and intriguing supernatural noir mystery, hardly visible within the dark toxic cloud of its own strangeness, populated by people bearing stricken expressions of misery and fear. There are some genuinely uncanny and disquieting ...
By Peter Bradshaw
Read full article →‘The Unknown’ Review: Niels Schneider Wakes Up as Léa Seydoux in Arthur Harari’s Gratuitously Serious Body-Swap Psychodrama
If you’ve ever caught yourself having just too good a time with “Freaky Friday” or “Your Name” or really any entry in the oddly well-populated body-swap genre, here’s a chance to do a little penance. “The Unknown” is Arthur Harari’s third directorial feature, after “Dark Inclusion” and “Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle,” and his […]
By Jessica Kiang
Read full article →‘The Unknown’ Review: Léa Seydoux Triggers a Body-Swap Nightmare in Beguilingly Weird Arthouse Genre- and Gender-Bender
Niels Schneider also stars in this third feature from Oscar-winning 'Anatomy of a Fall' co-writer Arthur Harari, which fuses existential horror with naturalistic drama.
By David Rooney
Read full article →Palme D’Or Contender & Anti-Bolloré Letter Signatory Arthur Harari’s ‘The Unknown’ Gets Warm 9-Minute Standing Ovation At Premiere
French Film director and anti-Bolloré letter signatory Arthur Harari received a warm, 9-minute reception as he attended the Cannes competition premiere of his Palme d’Or contender The Unknown alongside its stars Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider on Monday afternoon. The screening comes just 24 hours after Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada announced that his group would […]
By Melanie Goodfellow
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