Synopsis
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
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Cast
- Sabine AzémaCharlotte
- Laura MoranteNicole
- Pierre ArditiLionel
- André DussollierThierry
- Lambert WilsonDan
- Isabelle CarréGaëlle
- Claude RichArthur (voix)
- Michel Vuillermozarchitecte émission TV
- Françoise Gillardspeakerine TV
- Anne Kesslerprésentatrice émission TV
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
Alain Resnais' 2006 adaptation of a British play by Alan Ayckbourn is a world apart from his earlier Ayckbourn adaptation, "Smoking/No Smoking"; that film tried to be as "English" as possible. But this time Resnais looks for precise French equivalents to British culture, and what emerges is one of his most personal works, intermittently recalling the melancholy "Muriel" and "Providence." - 100
Premiere
Resnais employs all the tools of studio-bound moviemaking, silent-era to post-modern, in a way that is not only is consistently dazzling in a purely visual sense, but contains an empathy that lifts the picture to tragic heights even at those points at which it seems practically weightless. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The grand old filmmaker frames each scene like a fine painting. And fake snow falls with happy artificiality between rueful vignettes. - 83
The A.V. Club
Resnais and Ayckbourn care primarily about observing these characters' private and public faces, who they are and who they present themselves as. To that end, they've achieved a mood of enchanting intimacy. - 80
Village Voice
Resnais is now 84 years old; perhaps it takes eight decades of living to make a movie this compassionate, this confident--and this young. - 80
The New York Times
The film is accessible, pleasant, dreamy, a touch goofy and melancholic. Its modernist gestures are little more than stylistic tics, but there's an image of snow falling on two clasped hands that is almost rapturous. The role of the artist remains, for Mr. Resnais, the role of a lifetime. - 75
New York Post
Clever, wise and witty. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a minor film from a master, which is disappointing, but nevertheless it has its charms, most notably in the acting by a cast of stage and screen veterans.
