Critic Reviews
| 88 |
Boston Globe
Loren King
In this engaging, understated comedy, it is the journey and not the destination that matters.
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| 80 |
New Times (L.A.)
A film whose surface charm never gets in the way of its profound seriousness about living life to the fullest -- especially when one knows it isn't going to be a terribly long one.
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
Optimistically explores how vastly different people can come together, and how any journey is more about what happens along the way than simply getting from one place to another.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
An odyssey of self-discovery of much charm, humor and admirable subtlety.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
This French film has a breezy, documentary air that belies the important issues is raises.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a distinctly French feeling -- an air of caprice and light expectations -- and a perfect prologue to a delightful film.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Although the movie never so much as flirts with melodrama, there is still a bittersweet undercurrent.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Poignant, funny and clear-eyed about some tough topics: homophobia, racism, AIDS.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
Sectioned neatly into chapters with titles like "Mon petit frere" and "Ma mere," the film is perhaps a little too rigid, even by the conventions of road movies.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
A wafer-thin, sweetly sentimental picaresque with semiserious overtones.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
It would all be too obviously feel-good if Ducastel and Martineau weren't also tuned in to the liberating drift of the open highway and a sharp native humor that adds needed flesh and blood to their walking metaphors.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Yes, this is the stuff of fiction, where individuals can drift in and out of another's life and make extraordinary, unbelievable things happen.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Perhaps simply discovering a film so dedicated to a different perspective is adventure enough.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Sweet, funny, well-acted and nicely shot on locations in the south of France -- but on the dull side overall.
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| 50 |
Portland Oregonian
Understated fun, but not much more.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Makes its points gently; the picture presents its socially conscious messages as if they were written in the sand, on the beaches where Felix would probably prefer to frolic.
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