The Guardian's Bradshaw concedes that it is "well made", but says it is a "bafflingly airless and claustrophobic film, like being with fashion's very own Tutenkhamen, living and dying inside his own richly appointed tomb – and sentimentally indulged to the last".

The Search

Michel Hazanavicius's silent comedy The Artist picked up five Oscars in 2012. But he has made a 180-degree shift with The Search, about a Westerner (Berenice Bejo) who helps a lost child in the Chechen war. Oliver Lyttelton at Indiewire describes it as "misjudged and indulgent" with dialogue exchanges that are "mostly clunky and on-the-nose", while Justin Chang at Variety describes it as "a gruelling, lumbering, two-and-a-half-hour humanitarian tract that all but collapses under the weight of its own moral indignation".films. It is built like a tragedy in three acts that ends in death. The film operates like a kind of pre-vision on the tragic destiny of this actress”. It’s also a celebration of popular Egyptian cinema, historically sidelined by both Arab critics and the West.

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