Come Undone

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Brings maximum subtlety, nuance and insight into the timeless story of first love.

New Times (L.A.) David Ehrenstein

Charged by Rideau's amazingly sexy performance as the most forthright gay character put on screen to date, this is a fine piece of filmmaking.

Variety Robert Koehler

The elusive, quicksilver nature of young love is often reduced to crude simplicities by the movies, but director Sebastien Lifshitz and writing partner Stephane Bouquet have observed it with a superb balance of aesthetics and insight in Come Undone.

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

A melancholy valentine to broken hearts and lost innocence.

Chicago Tribune Patrick Z. McGavin

Turns increasingly interior and emotionally complex. It refuses to connect, putting the pressure entirely on its viewers to reach their own conclusions.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

The photography is strong, the performances sympathetic and the sex plentiful.

Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan

A delicately managed piece that is by turns intimately detailed and elliptical, and that's an approach that suits the tangled emotions of its two protagonists.

TV Guide Ken Fox

A moody, subtle drama that has more in common with the tragedy of "Endless Love" than "Where The Boys Are."

Village Voice Dennis Lim

Come Undone's true subject is, simply enough, the perspective-warping enormity of first love, as preserved in a scrapbook of before-and-after snapshots.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Ultimately, Come Undone isn't a movie about homosexuality, depression or family dynamics. For a gay coming-out story, its sexual politics are extremely muted.

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

If the sensitive coming-of-age love story is a well-worn tradition in gay cinema, Come Undone is at the very least a superior example of it.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Come Undone would have benefited immensely from less constricted performances from Elkaim and Rideau, both of whom go through the film determined not to crack a smile.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Come Undone is the quintessential gay date at the art house.

Boston Globe Loren King

Achingly slow, at times bleak and, in the end, frustratingly and regrettably, rather pointless.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

There isn't much here besides two self-absorbed kids.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

One of those French films whose makers won't lower themselves to tell a story in a way that is entertaining or compelling.