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Based on 7 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by:
Philippe Garrel (scenario and dialogue)
Arlette Langmann (scenario collaborator)
Marc Cholodenko (scenario collaborator)
Directed by: Philippe Garrel
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 19, 2007
DVD: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 178 minutes, B/W
Origin: France
Language(s): French (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Eric Rulliat, Nicolas Bridet, Mathieu Genet, Raïssa Mariotti, and Caroline Deruas-Garrel
A group of young Parisians turn to a bohemian existence after the events of May 1968. (Film Distribution)
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What The Critics Said
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Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A magical and supernally beautiful meditative drug-trip head-space picture (a full-fledged ZZM, q.v. above) for which all Euro-film masochists should rearrange their schedules. It'll be out on DVD soon, and that's great. But Garrel's films are almost never seen on the big screen, and this one's worth it.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
While the film’s desperately sad finale indicates that Philippe Garrel knows the truth of '68 better than most and might have suffered a crisis in faith in the years since, this magnificent film is itself proof that all was not lost.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Long, talky and shot in black and white. In other words, it requires a commitment in time and brain power - a commitment worth making.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Regular Lovers isn't a folly-of-youth story that aches with emotion, like "Au Revoir," "Les Enfants" or "The Squid And The Whale." It's drier, and simpler.
Read Full Review >Premiere Aaron Hillis
Through a haze of opium smoke and Molotov cocktails igniting, Regular Lovers plays out like the heavier politicized and unsentimentalized counterpoint to Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers."
Read Full Review >Variety Leslie Felperin
Regular Lovers evokes the '60s pretty well just through dialogue and rhythm -- better, in fact, than Bernardo Bertolucci's more reverently detailed "The Dreamers." However, the film's slow tempo induces the feeling one is living through the whole of 1968 in one sitting.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Austere, underlit, uncompromisingly lackadaisical at three hours, and anachronistic in a half dozen ways.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sammi B. gave it a4:
I am a foreign/art movie lover, but this was too slow and dragged out, even for me. Painfully long, could have been an hour shorter. Had a bit more energy and a few interesting lines in the last half hour, but by then I had little interest in the characters, who hadn't done much but smoke dope up til then. (Was tempted to walk out, like many in the theatre, NYC Cinema Village, did. ) Maybe that was the point of the movie...?
