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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The Film StageEthan VestbyThe Film StageEthan VestbyThis is both Serra’s most uncompromising film and his most enjoyable. In a way, it’s perhaps a stunning refute to the notion of “edgelord” as pejorative term; someone has to deliberately provoke to show us something we haven’t seen before.
- 75Slant MagazineCarson LundSlant MagazineCarson LundThough betraying the markings of its original form in its small revolving ensemble, single location, and frequent tableau staging, Liberté conjures a sustained ambiance and eroticism that’s unique to the language of cinema.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis film is an ordeal that I never want to go through again, but it’s undoubtedly executed with a cerebral conviction and uncompromising seriousness that no Anglo Saxon film-maker could approach.
- 58The A.V. ClubLawrence GarciaThe A.V. ClubLawrence GarciaFor the most part, though, Liberté is a drearily alienating experience; Serra’s depictions are characterized mainly by studied grotesquerie and tedious monotony.
- 50Film ThreatLorry KiktaFilm ThreatLorry KiktaLiberté is shocking, but it is staged as banally as possible.
- 40Screen DailyWendy IdeScreen DailyWendy IdeWith its Sadeian overtones, and glumly perverse excesses, this is not a particularly enjoyable experience. It will be best suited to the more experimental fringes of the festival circuit and to audiences who thought that Salo: 120 Days Of Sodom was too much fun.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinIt's as if a bunch of horny grad students decided to loot a costume store and then remake Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom with camera phones, but less fun.
- 30The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyExplicit but in no sense pornographic — it’s rather like antimatter with respect to pornography — Liberté plays an arguably specious moral and intellectual game, poking around the porous areas between squalor and perdition, and ultimately producing a pictorial and aural container of tedium.