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Cast
- Benoît PoelvoordeMarc Beaulieu
- Charlotte GainsbourgSylvie Berger
- Chiara MastroianniSophie Berger
- Catherine DeneuveMadame Berger
- André MarconCastang, le maire
- Patrick MilleLe mari de Sylvie
- Cédric VieiraLe petit ami de Sophie
- Thomas DoretGabriel
- Francis LeplayLe médecin
- Anne ConsignyLa cardiologue (uncredited)
Recommendations
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New York Daily News
Charged by dynamite performances and Bruni Coulais’s ominous score, this romantic tragedy is more gripping than most thrillers. - 75
The Playlist
For those willing to invest in the lives of these characters, even if the framework around them directly and without apology guides them toward inevitable tragedy, they will experience a drama of deep, genuine feeling. - 75
Slant Magazine
Throughout, Benoît Jacquot never loses sight of the primordial compulsions that drive feelings and expressions of great love and beauty. - 70
Village Voice
The film is so unabashed in showing the place of passion in a bourgeois world, how a missed connection can screw up a life forever, that plot implausibilities are forgiven. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It helps immeasurably that Gainsbourg, as an actress, is as intense as her presence feels evanescent, always seemingly onto the next moment already, leaving everyone in her wake. - 60
Variety
The entire scenario, contrived to within an inch of its life, takes Poelvoorde’s appeal for granted. Marc’s anxiety becomes our own once he realizes what he’s done, though Jacquot makes it much more compelling to watch his characters fall in love than it is to see them writhe and twist amid its complications. - 58
The A.V. Club
While the controlling deities might have found some amusement in this narrative, in Jacquot’s hands the tale is more bland than tragic. - 40
CineVue
That the drama should hinge on a series of bizarre novelistic coincidences and the irrational dopiness of the characters with whom we're supposed to empathise drains the film of realism and sends us into Mills & Boon territory.
