• Studio: MPI
  • Release Date: Aug 24, 2012
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Starring: Benoît Magimel, François Cluzet, Gilles Lellouche, Jean Dujardin, Marion Cotillard
  • Summary: Ludovic is a central figure in a close-knit group of Parisian friends in the prime of life, each of whom has attained personal and professional success. But after leaving a night club, Ludovic gets into a horrendous accident that sends his friends into a tailspin that will change their lives forever. (MPI Media Group) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 25
  2. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Aug 29, 2012
    88
    Cluzot, with his uncanny resemblance to Dustin Hoffman, is an engaging actor who effortlessly summons up inner neurosis. The others are all skilled at light wit and banter; in a way, the film is simply a record of the French being French.
  2. Reviewed by: Kerry Lengel
    Sep 6, 2012
    80
    It's a style of storytelling that leaves the audience guessing, but it also gives the actors room to breathe, to inhabit their characters without having to explain them away in terms of biography or pop psychology.
  3. Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    Aug 23, 2012
    60
    With an ensemble led by Marion Cotillard and François Cluzet, the French hit has personality to burn, and squanders most of it.
  4. Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    Aug 23, 2012
    30
    You're tempted to keep watching, even though the running time is a bloated 154 minutes, to see if anyone, or the movie itself, turns remotely likable. The answer to that, alas, is no.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Excellent movie with really great actors. Two and a half hours doesn't feel two long. I am really surprised that the critics in the newspapers did not give it higher rating. Collapse
  2. A film make by a band of friends. Touching in every moment. This movie show us a real piece of life ! Each caracter have is personnality and you can reconize you in all of them. Expand