50
Huppert's performance leans a bit heavily on the moist-in-the-eyes motif, but it's terrific none-the-less.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Never quite catches fire.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Talky, emphatically unsteamy psychological drama.
70
Predicated as it is on Huppert's pensive, provocative blankness, the action moves a bit slowly, although, as is often the case with Jacquot, events make more sense after the movie is over.
75
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
This is a film to be enjoyed on a psychological level for its keen understanding of the contradictory impulses that drive sexual and social intercourse.
80
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
Subtly profound love story.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
I cannot imagine a Hollywood movie like this. Audiences would be baffled.
70
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Watching this handsomely filmed, deftly edited but rather dry movie, you keep imagining the juice that a director like Pedro Almodovar could have squeezed out of the same story.
67
Austin Chronicle by Steve Davis
Predicated as it is on Huppert's pensive, provocative blankness, the action moves a bit slowly, although, as is often the case with Jacquot, events make more sense after the movie is over. Dares to provoke rather than titillate in its delineation of love's strange ways. As the French might say, “L'amour, l'amour, toujours l'amour.”