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An Eye for Beauty(Le Règne de la beauté)

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Canada · 2014
1h 42m
Director Denys Arcand
Starring Éric Bruneau, Mélanie Thierry, Melanie Merkosky, Marie-Josée Croze
Genre Drama

Luc is a brilliant young architect who lives with his beautiful wife in the countryside of Quebec. When Luc goes on a business trip, he meets and falls for a mysterious woman. Caught in a triangle of emotions, Luc puts everything in jeopardy to pursue her as his seemingly perfect life begins to fall apart.

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Variety by Andrew Barker

An almost bizarrely limp, emotionless, blank greeting card of a movie, this purported romantic comedy-drama contains little of the three, at best serving as a sort of extended L.L. Bean advertisement, full of fabulously shot footage of Eastern Canadian vistas and the well-dressed rustic yuppies who live there.

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Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

Denys Arcand fashions a commandingly leisurely pace that allows us to follow these people who walk a tightrope separating ecstasy from misery.

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Screen International by Dan Fainaru

If there is a star in this show, it is certainly cinematographer Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky whose work stands out as the one perfectly valid reason to watch this film.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer

The film feels at once incredulous and strangely inept, with the director resorting to facile plot twists or heavy-handed pathos whereas a little subtlety and sense would have went a long way

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New York Post by Kyle Smith

An Eye for Beauty star Éric Bruneau proves to be a haircut in search of a man, which makes him ideal for this vapid adultery drama that delivers the character depth of your average spread in Architectural Digest.

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The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Beautiful people living in beautiful houses surrounded by stunningly beautiful Canadian landscapes dominate the aptly titled An Eye For Beauty, which unfortunately also demands a stomach for tedium.

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