Place Vendôme

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

This complex, sophisticated and increasingly suspenseful tale of love and betrayal, intrigue and redemption, is as elegant as its star and its settings.

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

It's all about having your intelligence -- emotional, spiritual, cerebral -- respected. Garcia does that; Place Vendôme does that.

Variety Staff (not credited)

Taut and nuanced from start to finish, with memorable, lived-in central characters and an appealingly melancholy tone, helmer/co-scripter Nicole Garcia’s third feature has what it takes.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

This human level is always there beneath the thriller elements. The screenplay takes care to bring the crime story and the personal histories together, so that even the crossed lines of romance work as plot points, not just sentiment.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Long and slow, granted, but it's so peppered with moments of realism and nuanced craft that it continually rewards careful viewing.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

May have some of the trappings of an exotic thriller, but it's basically a character study.

Film.com Tom Keogh

Fascinating noir, which will long be remembered for its extraordinary lead performance by Catherine Deneuve.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

It's rare that a crime movie achieves such emotional complexity, but this one is smartly layered.

San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson

Overall a well-played chess match of a movie.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

A slow and knotted-up film, but one imbued with a keen sense of what motivates people beyond mere avarice.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Consistently absorbing as the amazing Deneuve reveals, scene by scene, new facets of a fascinating character in a mercantile war that involves equal parts greed and vanity.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Garcia's dialogue is wonderfully crafted, short, sharp and resonant, and her elegant direction is delicate and handsome.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

This is a quiet thriller and a middle-aged romance, and it's full of desperation and oozing anxiety.

TV Guide Ken Fox

Deneuve has never been better.

Village Voice Amy Taubin

Inept as a thriller, Place Vendôme nevertheless intrigues.

The New York Times Dave Kehr

In spite of its many flaws, the film never loses its focus on its fascinating central figure.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

When Deneuve is not onscreen, the film is never denuff.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Heavy-handed, predictable and almost completely unbelievable.