The film benefits from the collective contributions of four screenwriters...whose collective insights result in a beautiful complexity.
Lover for a Day(L'Amant d'un jour)
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France · 2017
1h 16m
Director Philippe Garrel
Starring Éric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Louise Chevillotte, Laëtitia Spigarelli
Genre Drama
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23-year-old Jeanne has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Despondent and with nowhere else to turn, she goes unannounced to her father’s house and asks to move in. There, she meets his new girlfriend, one of his students who is also 23 and lives with him. New and unexpected relationship dynamics will emerge.
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The scenario almost seems an apologia for the film’s own subject matter, crafted with the awareness that audiences have outgrown the May-December trope.
The always-understated director never mines the domestic situation for excessive melodrama, instead opting to step back and wryly examine the three leads’ contradictory impulses.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
The screenplay...is very good in its many observational scenes, which here are more straightforward and less laced with irony and dark humor than in Women.
The film is yet another of Phillippe Garrel's densely anecdotal studies of romantic fidelity.
Garrel has the touch of a wiser man not taking judgment on his characters’ youthful foibles, where setbacks are to be embraced and learned from rather than experiences discarded from memory.
Screen International by Lisa Nesselson
There are wonderful, quintessentially French flourishes scattered throughout.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
There are times when the characters — and their director — surprise and genuinely delight.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
If Garrel’s recent films (which also include In The Shadow Of Women and Frontier Of Dawn) play like variations on a theme, this one at least varies more than usual.
RogerEbert.com by Susan Wloszczyna
The plot alone of this elegantly shot black-and-white import shares the Woodman’s affection for variations on lusty middle-age man who beds — and tutors — an adoring decades-younger nubile conquest.
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