Rabbit Hole

Le thème est particulièrement douloureux et on peut s'attendre dès le départ d'un film traitant de ce sujet qu'il ne soit pas une partie de plaisir. Pour cette raison, la sensibilité avec laquelle le réalisateur traite du sujet et le choix des acteurs pour les rôles principaux sont d’une importance capitale. John Cameron Mitchell m'a agréablement surpris – il a parcouru beaucoup de chemin entre Shortbus et Rabbit Hole. Nicole Kidman a résolument mérité sa nomination aux Oscars, Aaron Eckhart lui a habilement emboîté le pas. Je peux aussi imaginer tout cela sous forme de pièce de théâtre, ce qui est probablement la base du film. (03/12/2022)

Rabbit Hole is an uncompromisingly serious psychological drama in which even a car’s trunk lid closes with insistent slowness. While Kidman explores the hole created by the loss of her child, Eckhart tries to fill it. She deals with the past; he looks to the future. There is no present in which they would find common ground. The film’s strange aloofness and the absence of everyday intimate moments between the central couple are explained by the devastating yet hopeful ending. They spent the entire ninety minutes seeking a path to the moment captured in the final shot. This is not in any respect a groundbreaking film and Kidman previously did a superb job of playing a woman dealing with a marital crisis in Eyes Wide Shut, but there is something quite rare in Rabbit Hole – a bit of truth. 80% (06/10/2012)

The film has a simple premise - a couple must come to terms with the loss of their young son in an accident. The subject matter is so simple that this could only stand on one thing - the performances. And they were fully utilized. I'm not saying the topic is simple, but it's not explicitly developed; it's the acting performances that make the film good. (23/06/2017)

Even with a luxurious cast and an exceptionally serious topic, Rabbit Hole didn't leave any deeper traces in me. As a parent, I confirm that I don't know of a worse situation than losing a child, and as a movie viewer, I argue that I know plenty of films made more inventively and with better scripts. Overall impression: 60%. (17/03/2016)

A very good and above all very intense drama. It’s not something for empathetic viewers, because for them it could upset their whole fragile world. Five superlatives for Kidman and Eckhart would be inadequate, but it's interesting how ideally Sandra Oh complements them in only the minimal space. At the end, I thought to myself that it's actually a very good game and it is indeed a game. I guess I've learned something after all. Formally, it had the same idea for an ending as Frankie and Johnny. (27/03/2013)