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80Exquisite yet harrowing.
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75The performances by neophite actresses Olympe Borval and Lizzie Brochere make the film special.
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75Has a sensuous, intimate filmmaking style that overrides The Wedding Song's more precariously loaded plot parallels.
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75A lumpy admixture of politics and carnality, but when it all comes together, it has a lingering force.
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70A seductively fluid and tactile drama from the writer and director Karin Albou, explores love and identity through the prism of the female body and the rights of its owner.
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70The movie's distinction, however, lies in two lovely performances, and in the passion and pain of parallel lives--both girls suffering at the hands of men, both struggling to understand the brutality of the world they must share.
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60Albou’s film conjures an irresistibly evocative atmosphere of stifling limitations, as well as a frank view of the female body that vacillates between carnal, sacrificial and beatific. Its caustic beauty is hard to shake.
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58It takes more than just the ominous tread of Nazi boots to infuse gravitas into this well-intentioned but dreary look at the female mind and body during wartime.
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Though lovely to look at, The Wedding Song is a little overwhelmed by its relentlessly hyper-poetic imagery.