40
An overdrawn soap opera about everyone's simultaneous fear of and longing for consequences.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
63
Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker
A little too deliberately balanced in its depiction of its three leads, but it largely makes up the difference with its informed grounding in the economic and social terrain of contemporary France.
40
What is confusing is why director Catherine Corsini thinks anyone should invest in a po-faced bourgie drama with so little to offer.
30
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
This stiflingly restrained French dirge about morality, guilt and atonement is chilly and constipated, mistaking ponderousness for intensity.
40
A glossy, well-meaning but dramatically listless study of class relations in contemporary Paris.
60
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Each thread of the plot is followed to its dangling, ragged conclusion in a movie that may be painful to watch but that maintains a chilly integrity.