The cinematography’s sumptuous, but pacing is very stop-start. Worse, there’s an aura of male entitlement, fuelled by the script’s uncritical reverence of its flawed philanderers.
Cezanne and I(Cézanne et moi)
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Belgium, France · 2016
Rated R · 1h 57m
Director Danièle Thompson
Starring Guillaume Gallienne, Guillaume Canet, Alice Pol, Déborah François
Genre Drama
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In 19th century Provence, two iconic French artists meet: writer Emile Zola and painter Paul Cezanne. Cezanne and I follows the intense, lifelong friendship between the two men as they lose touch, reunite in Paris, and navigate their lives and careers alongside each other.
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The film gains power in the final third...one wishes Thompson had chosen to view the great artist's lives through the eyes of the women who loved (and tolerated) them
The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer
Thompson’s heavy-handed storytelling, along with a nonstop score of pure mush, brings this closer to telenovela territory than to the Louvre.
Slant Magazine by Keith Watson
The film barely even scratches the surface of the animating force of Cézanne and Zola's lives: their art.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
Intensive research has killed many a biopic, but Cézanne Et Moi, which recounts the tempestuous lifelong friendship between Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola, labors even more tediously than most to accommodate personal details, whether or not those details serve the narrative.
The cinematic equivalent of calendar art.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Ever-present is the mild dissonance of fiery pioneers of expression inspiring charmingly pretty if standard art house fare.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Cézanne et Moi offers a pungent, demystifying portrait of the rowdy late-19th-century Parisian art world where famous painters and poets mingled and jostled for position at dinner parties and art openings filled with shoptalk, backbiting and intrigue.
RogerEbert.com by Susan Wloszczyna
Cézanne et Moi is at its most intoxicating whenever it looks and acts like a landscape painted by its title 19th-century French artist.
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