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08/01/06
The Libertine (2005)
32 %
Reviews Counted: 114 Fresh: 36 Rotten:78 Average Rating: 4.7/10
Consensus:
A confusing, monotonous, unattractive drama, Libertine mires its talented cast in a squalid, self-indulgent mess.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 25, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $4,756,532
Synopsis: An antidote to the sunny period pieces adopted from Jane Austen, which feature impeccably coiffed aristocracy engage in the witty banter of drawing room dramas and culminate in a most delightful denouement, THE LIBERTINE highlights the underbelly of the Britocracy of centuries past.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Stanley Townsend, Francesca Annis
Reviews
Top Critic
The performances are impeccable, but what might have been a handsome period drama, is compromised by a drawn out screenplay and over-stylised grainy production ... this dark tale of excess is pure theatre.
07/20/06
Top Critic
A difficult film to watch, but one that speaks to our own invidious world.
02/22/07
[Director] Dunmore creates a memorably grimy London, but the moral grime covering the film proves less memorable.
11/27/06
Mesmo em filmes irregulares como este, Johnny Depp é sempre capaz de despertar o interesse do espectador.
07/05/06
Historical accuracy is a liability instead of an asset in this painfully exact recreation of 1670s London . . .
07/05/06
This ugly creation uses graphic sex, bad hygiene, mud, diseased features and Depp wetting his pants (we get to see the puddle) to illustrate the perils of hedonism.
07/02/06
...the subject matter and marginal execution make it a hard sell to all but the most ardent fans of Depp, who treats The Libertine as a personal acting workshop.
06/12/06
Newcomer director Laurence Dunmore does not show the experience necessary to pull off this period piece and lets Depp's performance fall by the wayside
04/01/06
Top Critic
"The Libertine" in question here is John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, a poet and member of the Reformation court of King Charles II.
03/20/06
...had Wilmot not actually existed he could have been imagined by Jean Genet.
03/18/06
If you thought Depp went overboard with his Keith Richards impression in Pirates of the Caribbean, here he goes whole hog into the sty.
03/17/06
The story's familiarity doesn't reward its gloom, but it's lifted by an amazing performance.
03/16/06
Wilmot is so thoroughly committed to being so awful that his debauchery has a kind of purity about it.
03/16/06
The filmmakers would rather sentimentalize their debauched hero than convince us there was insight in his cynicism or artfulness in his obscene verse.
03/13/06
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