50
Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
However charming Kingsley and Shaw are as the lovestruck pawns and Sorvino as the advancing queen, the premise is less playful than played-out.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Triumph of Love, Marivaux's 270-year-old romantic comedy, is a beguiling trifle, a gauzy, teasing inquiry into the fungibility of emotions.
80
Sets you nearer than theater permits -- and further back than most movies dare. A magic vantage.
60
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Playful as it is, Clare Peploe's adaptation of Pierre Marivaux's romantic comedy coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit.
75
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
The always reliable Kingsley and Shaw are hilarious, and if the movie isn't quite a triumph, it's still far better than the junk food currently cluttering movie screens.
80
New Times (L.A.) by Jean Oppenheimer
The film is worth seeing for Sorvino alone. The actress hasn't been this good since Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite," a role that couldn't be more dissimilar.
50
Shaw and Kingsley both create crisp, comic performances, but Sorvino remains a problem throughout. Her physical transformation falls short of the "Boys Don't Cry" standard, to put it mildly.
60
Film Threat by Michael Dequina
Indeed, a triumph of love: love of performance, love of joy, and, above all else, love of love itself.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
It could have been something special, but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director Clare Peploe's misunderstanding of Marivaux's rhythms, and Mira Sorvino's limitations as a classical actress.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The story, based on an 18th century French play by Pierre Marivaux, is the sort of thing that inspired operas and Shakespeare comedies: It's all premise, no plausibility, and so what?