Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Once in a great while a film seems right in every detail. Andre Techine's Strayed ("Les Egares") is such a film.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

André Téchiné's beautifully ambiguous, exquisitely underplayed drama Strayed has less to do with the events and moral choices of the era that continue to shape French identity than with the timeless psychological effects of finding oneself unmoored from the familiar.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

As with Téchiné's best work, Strayed is a peculiar, lingering blend of robustness and delicacy--a movie with hardly a single wasted frame, incongruous word, or false gesture.

Variety by David Stratton

A taut, suspenseful, linear approach, and a trio of excellent performances.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

What makes this film special, as in his other films, is the getting there. Téchiné is the master of subtle shifts in mood, an acute delineator of psychological interplay, and therefore demands the utmost of his actors.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

It begins with a montage of devastating black-and-white news clips interwoven with flashes of the flight of a terrified young widow and her two children. After that, the movie softens somewhat, but it never succumbs to sentimentality.

Time by Richard Schickel

Elegant and understated.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer

Téchiné gets deep inside the dread and exhilaration of people who have lost their bearings so suddenly they don't even have the luxury of grief.

Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

Strayed has the strange clarity of a fable. It strips everything away until only instincts and emotions are left.

Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt

The story is dramatic and Béart gives one of her best performances, even if Téchiné's style has its usual sense of distance.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Long expert at unforgettable characterizations, Techine turns his talents toward creating an evocative sense of time and mood.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

The result is, alas, competent but unexceptional.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

Beautifully shot, and graced with another winning performance from the lovely Beart, Strayed nevertheless fails because the relationship between Odile and Yvan never makes us feel the sexual passion it implies.