TheWrap by Dan Callahan
All Is Forgiven is engrossing, yet it is only after it is over and there is time to think about it that the film starts to really seem dazzling, as an unfolding portrait of loss that leaves us with many questions.
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Director
Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast
Paul Blain,
Marie-Christine Friedrich,
Victoire Rousseau,
Constance Rousseau,
Carole Franck,
Olivia Ross
Genre
Drama
When Victor starts getting involved with drug dealers, his wife Annette is convinced he will get back on his feet again. But before long, Victor relapses, and leaves his family after a violent dispute. 11 years later, his daughter, now 17, discovers that Victor lives in the same city, and decides to see him again.
TheWrap by Dan Callahan
All Is Forgiven is engrossing, yet it is only after it is over and there is time to think about it that the film starts to really seem dazzling, as an unfolding portrait of loss that leaves us with many questions.
The Hollywood Reporter
Writer/director Mia Hansen-Love’s first feature, All is Forgiven, a keenly observed study in intimacy that has the rhythm and feel of real life, announces the arrival of an intriguing sensibility. Technically accomplished and finely acted without artifice by a talented ensemble cast, it’s an astutely written, mature work in its content, understated, naturalistic style and sensitive rendering of complex emotion.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
The atmosphere the director creates, once fully breathed in, has an emotional gravity that becomes devastating as it settles.
Screen Daily by Lee Marshall
Perhaps the most persuasive aspect of this hopeful parable of failure is the way casting, acting, script, and camerawork conspire to usher us into an immediately believable world which is observed with a painterly eye yet never seems staged.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sura Wood
Writer/director Mia Hansen-Love’s first feature, All is Forgiven, a keenly observed study in intimacy that has the rhythm and feel of real life, announces the arrival of an intriguing sensibility. Technically accomplished and finely acted without artifice by a talented ensemble cast, it’s an astutely written, mature work in its content, understated, naturalistic style and sensitive rendering of complex emotion.
RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley
It's one of those rare films where the title has real meaning, one that grows in power the moment the credits roll.
The Film Stage
Hansen-Løve largely focuses on how, despite the great distance and difference of perspectives between the two, a chance of forgiveness and reconciliation is still there; that the passing of time can still heal the wounds these two have. And this is what eventually gives the film tenderness and sense of hope, despite its tragic premise.
The Film Stage by Reyzando Nawara
Hansen-Løve largely focuses on how, despite the great distance and difference of perspectives between the two, a chance of forgiveness and reconciliation is still there; that the passing of time can still heal the wounds these two have. And this is what eventually gives the film tenderness and sense of hope, despite its tragic premise.
Variety by Justin Chang
While its succession of emotionally loaded moments never crystallize into a vivid whole, the strong performances and highly effective use of music should put audiences in a forgiving mood.
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