Release dates
May 30, 2017
97 months agoVOD / DVD
Released
TBA
Staying Vertical release date
The movie Staying Vertical is already released on Cinema, VOD and DVD in the USA. The upcoming Blu-ray release date in the USA is to be announced.
What the critics say
Based on 13 reviews, Staying Vertical gets an average review score of 65
Guiraudie’s ambition is far greater than a mere exposition on a specific theme such as fatherhood, sexual and familial norms, the societal pressure to succeed, or the torturous dialectic of the pleasure vs. the reality principle, even though all of these – and many more – apply here.
3012d ago
Suction cups, prog rock, wolves: Staying Vertical’s beguiling oddities keep coming.
3012d ago
In Staying Vertical, as in nearly all of French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie’s tonically unorthodox work, the emphasis is on the abundant possibility of pairings and practices when people get horizontal.
3012d ago
It changes gears whenever one is lulled into believing that it has finally settled into a recognizable narrative pattern.
3012d ago
French director Alain Guiraudie's follow-up to his 2013 Un Certain Regard breakout hit 'Stranger by the Lake' is his first film in competition at the prestigious festival.
3012d ago
Something about the strangeness of the people and the harsh indifference of the nature that surrounds them feels real, even if realism in the conventional sense may be the last thing on the filmmaker’s mind.
3012d ago
A devilishly strange exercise that feels like a grim joke, minus the punchline.
3012d ago
It’s less a convincing, involving narrative than an episodic picaresque that rambles loose-jointedly from absurdist encounter to vaguely fable-like incident.
3012d ago
Staying Vertical pushes the envelope of human sexuality into every orifice.
3012d ago
Staying Vertical is a soulless, sometimes entertaining, but ultimately frustrating film from French auteur Alain Guiraudie.
3012d ago
One thing’s for sure: In “Staying Vertical,” every character has sex on the brain, all the time.
3012d ago
Damien Bonnard, at least in this role, is not an appealing actor. He mopes and gawks and never smiles and, whatever the situation, reacts with a disaffected semi-sneer that could generously be called “minimal.”
3012d ago
French director Alain Guiraudie’s follow-up to The Stranger by the Lake is wearyingly self-indulgent and a real disappointment.
3012d ago