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Summary Café de Flore” is a love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorced, successful DJ in present day Montre...

Directed By: Jean-Marc Vallée

Written By: Jean-Marc Vallée

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Adopt Films
  • 2 h
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Adopt Films
  • 2 h

Café de Flore

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
53
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Café de Flore” is a love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorced, successful DJ in present day Montre...

Directed By: Jean-Marc Vallée

Written By: Jean-Marc Vallée

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
53
46% Positive
6 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
53
46% Positive
6 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews

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88
Nov 1, 2012
This is a gorgeous, flashy, widescreen epic, like "Boogie Nights" or "Casino," about the most essential things in life: Family, friends and love. But most of all, love.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 13, 2012
The film is generous to all its besotted creatures, and to the audience as well. Viewers who fall in love with Café de Flore will find that it loves them back.
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70
Nov 8, 2012
It must be said that Café de Flore is true to its hyper-romantic belief system. And unlike most movies in the "Touched by an Angel" school of storytelling, it doesn't descend into cheap sentimentality. It may be hokum, but it is sophisticated hokum.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 31, 2012
Postdivorce reconciliation tales - not to mention mother-whore disquisitions - don't get more elaborate than this.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 18, 2012
It's terribly long and repetitive for so delicately dreamy a diptych, and at times the modern-day story feels like little more than a drawn-out apologia for the wandering male gaze.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
38
Nov 8, 2012
The film as a whole goes from intriguing to irritating.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
12
Oct 31, 2012
It's a pretty tired proposition to complain about movies being manipulative, but Café de Flore sets the bar especially low.
By Steve Macfarlane FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
5.8
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20% Negative
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30% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Production Company Item 7, Monkey Pack Films, Backup Media, Banque Postale Image 4, CNC Fonds de Soutien Sofica, Canal+, Ciné+, CinéCinéma, Coficup, Crazy Films, Crédit d'Impôt Cinéma et Télévision, Société Radio-Canada, Soficinéma 7, Super Ecran, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), crédit d'impôt provincial
Release Date Nov 2, 2012
Duration 2 h
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Healing a broken heart isn't easy. Sometimes it takes a lifetime...or two.
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Awards

Genie Awards
• 3 Wins & 13 Nominations
Jutra Awards
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations

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