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The Guardian by Catherine Shoard
For all its flaws - in fact, perhaps because of them - Le Week-End is a work borne from, and provoking, real feeling.
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Writer / director team Kureishi and Michell add to their partnership with an insightful look at life-long commitment.
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Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
It’s lightly played, often very funny and shot all over Paris with energy and wit, and boosted by superb, inquiring turns from Broadbent and Duncan.
80
The Telegraph by David Gritten
Sophisticated, sharp and funny, Le Week-End achieves an unusual coup: it’s a film about two older characters that is neither deeply gloomy (like, say, Amour) nor twinkly and cheerily upbeat.
80
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
The film is imbued with an engaging mix of warmth and prickliness by the lovely, lived-in performances of Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan.
80
Bittersweet, charming yet often very thorny.
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Michell’s handling of the relationship between the two is touching in how little judgment he passes.
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The result? An accomplished, bittersweet drama that's more bitter than sweet.
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Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy And Rosie Get Laid) sometimes overdoes the emotional-seesaw routine... But director Roger Michell (who’s previously worked with Kureishi on The Mother, Venus, and the miniseries The Buddha Of Suburbia) maintains a slightly jagged rhythm that proves disarming, and he has two magnificent collaborators in Broadbent and Duncan.
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Slant Magazine by R. Kurt Osenlund
Both keenly calculated and flowing with offbeat, naturalistic detail, Hanif Kureishi's jewel of a script reflects his sensibilities as a playwright.