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Changing Times

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 11 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign | Romance
Written by:
André Téchiné (scenario)
Laurent Guyot (scenario)
Pascal Bonitzer (scenario)
Directed by: André Téchiné
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 14, 2006
DVD: October 3, 2006
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: France
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, Lubna Azabal, Tanya Lopert, Nabila Baraka, and Idir Elomri
An architect (Depardieu) accepts an assignment in Tangiers, in the hope of picking up his relationship with an old flame (Deneuve).
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This magnificent pair are the heart of Techine's film, and the sense of frayed, aging beauty and handsomeness they now carry helps project the picture's main theme: the imperishability of true love.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Volatile and sometimes daring performances by Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, and Lubna Azabal (as twins) contribute to the highly charged and novelistic experience.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
In Changing Times, Mr. Téchiné, the great French director, is near the peak of his form. Weaving a half dozen subplots, he creates a set of variations on the theme of divided sensibilities tugging one another into states of perpetual unrest and possible happiness.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Another gorgeous and immensely satisfying reminder that there are few better directors than Téchiné when it comes to capturing the vagaries of the heart.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Full of last-minute surprises, this willfully slippery movie seems to make the case both for mixing it up and sticking to your own kind. Which is all of a piece with the sensibility of this wonderfully ambiguous filmmaker, a visionary of our changing times.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Despite its weaknesses, Changing Times ("Les Temps Qui Changent" in French) is always watchable and even poignant from time to time. What it is never going to be is the grand passion of anyone's moviegoing life.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
A thoughtful and reflective love story about the impact of time on true love.
Read Full Review >Variety Lisa Nesselson
A Cathererine Deneuve-Gerard Depardieu vehicle that leaves ample room for interesting supporting characters, this moody, more-bitter-than-sweet ode to anxiety is intense adult fare reinforced by effective no frills lensing.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
There's something uniquely pleasurable about watching a director in total command of his craft, even when that craft is in service of a scattershot melodrama with pale intimations of social relevance.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
There isn't a flicker of chemistry between these old pros in Andre Techine's peculiar melodrama.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
While incontrovertibly light compared to contemporary master of melodrama Andre Techine's best work, this 2005 romance is best enjoyed as the welcome reunion of two of French cinema's most beloved stars.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Techine doesn't have much of a story to tell, so instead of moving the narrative forward, he expands it laterally.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
If the title, knee-jerk cast, pop-song intro, and schmaltzy plotline of his new film Changing Times is any indication, he's (André Téchiné) now the French mainstream, the premier Gallic pilot of high-toned soap opera.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
It's kind of a mess. An agreeable, even lovable mess, but still a mess.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
It's always enjoyable watching Depardieu and Deneuve, but they deserve better material than they've been given by Techine.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
[Anonymous] gave it a6:
Techine took a common but little talked about story line, being forever obsessed about a first love, and spun a movie out of it. Enter Gerard Depardieu. The problem is that this story line in and of itself is thin, so that the movie's success depends on the stories spun around it. Enter the now-bitter first partner, Catherine Deneuve, and family. The latter's relationship to the story line is to provide background and context, but the connection isn't apparent. Thus, the feeling of a typically French 'talky' movie (ok), but without a story or character development to back it up or take it some place worth noting. Deneuve and Depardieu do good jobs and keep the movie together, but it's only memorable for the set up, not what happens after.
Lixy P. gave it a9:
Techine is a masterful director of actors, excelling in making you care about all the characters and their lives (the least interesting being the central plot, and Depardieu's character). Remarkably satfisying, even though--or because?-- the stories are left open-ended.
[Anonymous] gave it a9:
Truly a gem! It's indecisive and free. Very enjoyable film.
Alexis D. gave it a9:
Swirlling and human film. It's charged and moving. I loved it. Nice to see Deneuve and Depardieu together again. Téchiné is brilliant.
