A Faithful Man

Name: A Faithful Man
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: July 19, 2019
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Arthur Igual, Bakary Sangaré, Dali Benssalah, Diane Courseille, Joseph Engel

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| Release Date: July 19, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Arthur Igual, Bakary Sangaré, Dali Benssalah, Diane Courseille, Joseph Engel, Kiara Carrière, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Melody Depp, Louis Garrel, Vladislav Galard

Summary: A couple's relationship becomes complicated when she leaves him for his best friend, and returns after he dies.

Director: Louis Garrel

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 75 min

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RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jul 19, 2019

Casta and Garrel generate wary warmth as a couple rediscovering each other, while Depp and Engel provide the comedic ballast. Read full review

The Film Stage Ethan Vestby

Oct 9, 2018

It can’t be overstated the simple pleasures of something that’s genuine but never cringe-inducing, and light but never sugary. Read full review

Robert Abele

Aug 1, 2019

A tart, seriocomic morsel of desire and doubt. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Oct 9, 2018

A Faithful Man seems to be content playfully ruminating on how matters of the heart consume people — and how, sometimes, pursuing someone can be more fulfilling than actually possessing them. Read full review

Dan Callahan

Jul 16, 2019

In description, A Faithful Man sounds like quite a rich brew, but it is actually more of an exercise than anything else, a chance to play a kind of cinematic shell game with four main characters who are never quite what they seem. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Oct 9, 2018

A Faithful Man shows that Garrel has promise as a filmmaker, with a knack for directing actors and a welcome sense of Gallic wit. And as a performer himself, he remains a likeable and sometimes intense screen presence. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 13, 2019

Like a fine wine, Louis Garrel‘s A Faithful Man needs to be opened to the elements, to “breathe.” Because if there’s ever been a more airless, so-dry-one-hesitates-to-label-it “romantic comedy,” I’ve yet to set parched eyes upon it. Read full review

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Mar 20, 2021

(Mauro Lanari)
After "Les deux amis" (2015), Garrel returns to directing for his second film full of words. L'enfant fidèle, a pre-adolescent still biologically in need of family order and stability, and Paul, the great absentee, perhaps only a putative father (the child is called Joseph),(Mauro Lanari)
After "Les deux amis" (2015), Garrel returns to directing for his second film full of words. L'enfant fidèle, a pre-adolescent still biologically in need of family order and stability, and Paul, the great absentee, perhaps only a putative father (the child is called Joseph), virtuous by virtue of his own death, are opposed to the paroxysmal chaos of adults with their desire in disarray, unable to distinguish freedom from libertinism by living bonds, relationships, feelings, loves dictated by hormones, and with the male protagonist increasingly passive object of skirmishes between two female archetypes. Until the spermarche, the enfant will have won. Garrel and Letitia Casta had already married the previous year.… Expand

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