Life is a Bed of Roses Reviews
It's more memorable for various isolated witticisms and images than it is as a coherent whole. And its flightier touches can be deadly.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The material manages at once to be both precious and dry, the staging is unprofitably claustrophobic, and the structure less ingenious than arbitrary.
CinePassion
Utopia is folly, though human fluidity here is the stuff of both Wagnerian myth and Gallic farce
Spirituality and Practice
Resnais raises more questions than he answers in this fascinating three-section parable about utopianism, education and love.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Often very funny and witty.
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| Original Score: B+
Stylus Magazine
What happens when a skeptic tackles tranquility? He makes it look dangerous.
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| Original Score: 60/100
Time Out
Top CriticResnais speculates on the utopian dream that life is infinitely perfectable, that human chaos, despair and horror can be spirited or educated out of existence. There are two stories, to correspond to each of these possibilities.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A unique and funny film from intellectual French director Resnais.
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| Original Score: 3/4
