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05.07.2019
Never Ever
Directed by
Benoit Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot returns with a dreamlike story of an unraveling romance in NEVER EVER, based on the book “The Body Artist” by Don DeLillo. While attending a museum retrospective of his work, filmmaker Rey (Mathieu Amalric) wanders into an adjoining gallery and becomes entranced by Laura (Julia Roy), a beautiful, young performance artist. The two fall madly in love and embark on a wild and delirious affair. Living together in Rey's secluded seaside estate, the lovers believe they have found eternal bliss. Months later, Rey dies in a tragic accident, leaving Laura alone in the house by herself… or so she thinks.
Director & Cast
- Director: Benoit Jacquot
- Starring: Mathieu Amalric
- Starring: Julia Roy
- Starring: Jeanne Balibar
- Starring: Victoria Guerra
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Reviews
- " Never Ever ... represents a striking breakthrough by novice co-star, and the film’s writer, Julia Roy."
- "[B]reakout scripter-star Julia Roy ... adds her own enigmatic shading to proceedings via her terrific leading turn as a grief-stricken performance artist preserving her husband’s presence in more ways than one."
- "Both leads are great and Mathieu Amalric played a similar role in Ismael’s Ghosts but Julia Roy steals the film as the love interest/artist.”"
- "This is yet another routine drama by French director Benoit Jacquot, whose breakthrough, 1995’s A Single Girl, got by on the magnetism of leading lady Virginie Ledoyen; his latest—a wobbly adaptation of a Don DeLillo novel—wastes both of his stars. Although Julia Roy (who also wrote the messy script) has an undeniable presence, she and her usually interesting co-star Mathieu Amalric can do little with the forced, pandering ghost story that Jacquot shovels at us."
Official Selection
Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Official Selection
Toronto Int'l. Film Festival
Toronto Int'l. Film Festival
Official Selection
Tokyo Int'l. Film Festival
Tokyo Int'l. Film Festival