75
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.
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90
A taut, suspenseful, linear approach, and a trio of excellent performances.
90
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.
50
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.
70
Long expert at unforgettable characterizations, Techine turns his talents toward creating an evocative sense of time and mood.
91
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.
80
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.
80
Elegant and understated.
80
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.
63
The result is, alas, competent but unexceptional.