The Woman in the Fifth
The Woman in the Fifth

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American writer Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don't go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet. Then Margit (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas), a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexp... (Full plot summary below)

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American writer Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don't go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet. Then Margit (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas), a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events, as if an obscure power was taking control of his life.

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Horror.com - 9/10 by Staci Layne Wilson[Mostly slow, this film at least] has some absorbing moments of strange sexuality, haunt and mystery.
Chicago Reader - 9/10 by Ben SachsUnlike most literary adaptations this one actually conveys the pleasure of fiction, lingering suggestively on small details of character and place. The movie casts such a seductive air of mystery that the resolution feels anticlimactic, yet there's plenty to enjoy along the way.
Daily Telegraph (UK) - 8/10 by David GrittenIt's a rare film that leaves you wondering where it's going, how it may end - and afterwards, even questioning what actually happened. It's an intriguing enigma.
London Evening Standard - 8/10 by Charlotte O'SullivanThe chemistry between the actors is gorgeously unhealthy; Oedipal, spiteful and sexy.
The L Magazine - 8/10 by Ela BittencourtIt is a pity that Pawlikowski abandons his quietly haunting impressionism in the film's more literal second half.
Minneapolis Star Tribune - 8/10 by Colin CovertThose who prefer tidy, "Murder, She Wrote" closure are advised to shop elsewhere.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Mick LaSalleThis movie is not recommended for people who need to know what's going on. The Woman in the Fifth, an English and French language film from the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, is watchable and enjoyable, but it's fairly impenetrable, and it gets more peculiar as it goes along.
AV Club - 8/10 by Scott TobiasIn spite of his considerable intelligence and cinematic gifts, Pawlikowski isn't Roman Polanski, so the delusions and psychosis of his put-upon lead character doesn't have the right intensity. Fifth feels like a literary bauble, chipped by imperfections.
House Next Door - 8/10 by Fernando F. Croce[An] intriguing but contrived mystery-drama.
CineVue - 8/10 by Lucy PopescuA provocative, courageous and often gripping film.

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