| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
Fonteyne edges closer than most to capturing the mysterious rhythms of liaisons -- pornographique, romantique, and otherwise.
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| 90 |
Dallas Observer
By boiling the characters down to the most basic emotions and eliminating lifestyle-specific idiosyncrasies, we can enter the world of the story with ease.
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| 90 |
TNT RoughCut
A brilliant, haunting film.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The audience, too, will be sorry to see this fleeting, beautifully made French film end.
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| 88 |
Baltimore Sun
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
A passionate, heart-wrenching film that is a must-see for any romantic.
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| 88 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
An extraordinarily perfect little film: A bittersweet drama that explores sexuality and love, and their reverberations across the landscape of human emotions.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It is about the desiring itself, not about what they desire. That makes it more intriguing than if we knew their secret--and sexier.
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| 80 |
Time
This wee, discreet little movie has a certain rueful intelligence about the ways we rather carelessly talk ourselves into love--and out of it as well.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Sophisticated entertainment of the less-is-more school.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Baye and Lopez are excellent, as always.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
This movie really belongs to Baye and Lopez, both so skillful that they almost make you forget that what you're watching is close to a stunt--one oddly evocative of Graham Greene in its doomed romanticism but at times also minimalist to a fault.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Smells much more like real life than the immediate mating that occurs between expensive movie stars on Hollywood soundstages.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
This sweet, pensive gabfest is neither conventionally romantic nor pornographic.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
Has the rare distinction of being slight and tragic at the same time.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
A film as romantic as its title.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
A bit of a cop-out, wrapping in wistful sentimentality a failure to acknowledge a connection that is more than epidermal.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Halfway through, it becomes clear that the filmmakers don't know how to end the film.
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| 60 |
Film.com
When the film is sexy, it's truly sexy, assuming that you believe sexiness has something to do with the exploration of a connection between people.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
This short, gentle film is surprisingly involving.
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
Ultimately too slight and opaque to inspire much ardor.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
A delicate mood piece that owes much of its languorous charm to the understated intelligence of its two leads.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
A bittersweet duet convincingly, if unexcitingly, performed by Baye and Lopez.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Clearly, this is an affair to forget.
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