Metacritic Film

Portraits Chinois

Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Romane Bohringer, and Jean-Phillipe Ecoffey

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Phaedra Cinema
Drama
105 minutes | Color
France / UK
Released In Theaters November 5, 1999

A group of artistically inclined Parisian friends fall in love and out of love while trying to set their skewered priorities straight. (Phaedra Cinema)

WRITTEN BY
Martine Dugowson
Peter Chase

DIRECTED BY
Martine Dugowson

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

54 / 100

Critic Reviews

80	Salon.com Truly is an ensemble comedy.
75	Entertainment Weekly A light romantic do-si-do.
70	The New York Times The characters...are well cast, well directed and skillfully acted, if not a particularly admirable lot.
70	Village Voice Justine Elias The performances are uniformly strong.
63	New York Daily News The group in Portraits Chinois is a little too diverse and unwieldy to keep emotional track of.
50	TV Guide It's all pretty entertaining in a shallow sort of way.
50	Christian Science Monitor Nicely acted and capably directed, but hardly memorable.
38	New York Post Something most have gotten lost in the translation.
20	LA Weekly The predicaments of this whiny, unprepossessing crew inspire about as much sympathy as a celebrity divorce.

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