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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Fonteyne edges closer than most to capturing the mysterious rhythms of liaisons -- pornographique, romantique, and otherwise.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

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.

TNT RoughCut J. Rentilly

A brilliant, haunting film.

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

The audience, too, will be sorry to see this fleeting, beautifully made French film end.

Baltimore Sun Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

A passionate, heart-wrenching film that is a must-see for any romantic.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

An extraordinarily perfect little film: A bittersweet drama that explores sexuality and love, and their reverberations across the landscape of human emotions.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

It is about the desiring itself, not about what they desire. That makes it more intriguing than if we knew their secret--and sexier.

Time Richard Schickel

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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Sophisticated entertainment of the less-is-more school.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Baye and Lopez are excellent, as always.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

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.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Smells much more like real life than the immediate mating that occurs between expensive movie stars on Hollywood soundstages.

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

This sweet, pensive gabfest is neither conventionally romantic nor pornographic.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Has the rare distinction of being slight and tragic at the same time.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A film as romantic as its title.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

A bit of a cop-out, wrapping in wistful sentimentality a failure to acknowledge a connection that is more than epidermal.

Chicago Tribune John Petrakis

Halfway through, it becomes clear that the filmmakers don't know how to end the film.

Film.com Robert Horton

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.

TV Guide Ken Fox

This short, gentle film is surprisingly involving.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Ultimately too slight and opaque to inspire much ardor.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

A delicate mood piece that owes much of its languorous charm to the understated intelligence of its two leads.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

A bittersweet duet convincingly, if unexcitingly, performed by Baye and Lopez.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Clearly, this is an affair to forget.