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When the Sea Rises
New Yorker Films

When the Sea Rises reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Yolande Moreau, Wim Willaert, Olivier Gourmet, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Duquesne, Jacques Bonnaffé, Séverine Caneele, and Bouli Lanners

A sweet and genuinely off-beat comedy about a 45-year-old actress (Moreau) traveling from one small town to another with her one-woman shoe "Dirty Business." (New Yorker Films)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Foreign  
WRITTEN BY: Yolande Moreau
Gilles Porte
 
DIRECTED BY: Yolande Moreau
Gilles Porte
 
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 17, 2006 
Theatrical: January 13, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Belgium / France 
LANGUAGE(S): French (with English subtitles) 

Original title "Quand la mer monte..."; also known as "When the Tide Comes In"; Best Actress (Moreau), 2005 César Awards, France

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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
It's nice to see a love story that deals with mature people. We're not likely to get anything like it from Hollywood. So enjoy When the Sea Rises while you can.
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70
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A delightfully off-kilter love story. I don't want to oversell this winsome little movie, but if you want a bittersweet but cheerful pick-me-up on a cold winter evening, it's just the ticket.
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70
The New York Times Stephen Holden
And as you watch her (Moreau) sink into this semiautobiographical role (she was herself a touring performer in the 1980's), the character emerges as a deep, multilayered woman: kind, gentle and happily partaking of life's simple pleasures much of the time, but when necessary, as tough as her stage character through whom she relishes expressing her residual anger at life's hardships and disappointments.
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63
TV Guide Ken Fox
Moreau gives a beautifully sensitive performance as a woman who finds herself at a literal and figurative crossroads, a performance for which she was quite justly rewarded the Cesar Award in 2005.
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63
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
There's something sweet yet chilling in When the Sea Rises. If it had explored more of the chill, it might have turned into a knockout, absurdist thriller.
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60
Variety Lisa Nesselson
Modest but spot-on co-helming debut by actress Yolande Moreau (the concierge in "Amelie") and Gilles Porte is beguiling in the slightly surreal vein of the best of contempo Belgian cinema but without the typical nasty streak.
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60
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
If the movie stops short of exploring its own baggage, the actors still make for unforgettable company.
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58
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
It's content enough just to drink in the regional flavor, appreciate the carefree heartiness of the locals, and allows these two eccentrics to have some good times before the carriage turns into a pumpkin. The film treads lightly, but leaves little impression.
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