100
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
It's hard to imagine many films surpassing or even equaling the effect of this supple, breathtakingly direct, small French film.
À tout de suite
Critic Rating
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- France
- 2004
- · 95m
Director
Benoît Jacquot
Cast
Isild Le Besco,
Nicolas Duvauchelle,
Laurence Cordier,
Sabri Lahmer,
Odile Vuillemin,
Forini Kodoukaki
Genre
Crime,
Drama,
Romance,
Thriller
Lili is a wealthy art student in 1970s Paris who falls head over heels in love with a man who turns out to be a dangerous criminal. In due time, she’s on the run with him in Europe, and quickly winds up alone and destitute in Athens.
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What are critics saying?
80
Salon by Andrew O'Hehir
Le Besco gives an unforgettable performance in a movie that's sweet and sad, formally near-perfect but never cynical.
80
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The downbeat story unfolds in quick, incisive slashes in which the combination of minimal dialogue and gorgeous black-and-white photography lends the movie a chilly documentary realism.
80
Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones
Absorbing thriller.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
An exceptionally perceptive film about what it's like to be 19 years old.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
The result is a painful and poignant film at once empathetic and critical, more soberly unnerving than exciting, but never less than compelling.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
Set in Paris in 1975, this sensitive, low-key film is another exquisitely crafted volume in French director Benoit Jacquot's collection of films about young Frenchwomen at pivotal points in their lives.
70
Village Voice by J. Hoberman
Less a tale of desperado lovers than a cruel story of youth, Tout de Suite is framed largely in close-up, with few transitional shots and a narrative that grows increasingly fragmented.
70
The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias
Based on true events, À Tout De Suite reveals the seductions of criminal life to be something like Stockholm Syndrome for Le Besco.
70
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
One of those rich girl/bad boy things that defy understanding and leave you on the outside. Fascinated, but on the outside.
63
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Though it happens two-thirds into the movie, when Lili is abandoned by the others in Greece without either luggage or money, Le Besco's vulnerability draws us into her predicament.
60
Variety by David Rooney
Strikingly crafted but rather empty drama.
50
L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor
Jacquot seems unwilling to either shape his story or offer commentary, a standard New Wave strategy that, in this instance, makes for a tale as vague as it is nouvelle.
50
New York Post
A series of beautifully bleak black-and-white images of the sexy actress Islid Le Besco staring gravely out of windows.
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