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04/15/09
Cet Amour-La (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 12
Rotten:10
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 2, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Marguerite Duras, the Indochina-born French author whose books were adapted into plays and films--Alain Resnais' HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (1958) and Jean-Jacques Annaud's THE LOVER (1991)--is played by... [More]
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Aymeric Demarigny, Christiane Rorato, Sophie Mileron
Director: Josée Dayan
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Reviews for Cet Amour-La
Top CriticNo review available.
07/01/05
It's a tender, sympathetic film from a gifted writer-director, Algerian-born Josee Dayan, who obviously adores Moreau, Duras and literature.
11/13/03
Top CriticNeither character comes off too well.
10/24/03
Moreau's small but telling glances are all the movie has to reveal Duras' loneliness and yearning for a last embrace, but at times it's almost enough.
10/24/03
Like its subject, Cet Amour-La has a knack for making you focus on the beauty beneath the imperfections.
10/03/03
Top CriticIt is a great story, but it hasn't been translated to the screen.
09/20/03
Top CriticDayan never makes the love story accessible to us, never makes us understand what there is between this couple.
09/20/03
Moreau brings to the role the sophistication, creative passion and weary wariness only a fellow great artist could evoke with such effortless conviction.
06/27/03
Alive and affecting.
06/27/03
Top CriticCet Amour-Là founders on the difficulty that faces all movies about artists -- how to contextualize the work into the life without putting the audience to sleep.
06/26/03
[Moreau] now in her mid-70s, takes charge of her scenes with an iron-fisted authority that refuses to acknowledge the inert movie around her.
05/09/03
Top CriticA film that revels in the insights of Duras' writing and the wisdom of Ms. Moreau's ripe experience as an actress -- a perfectly observed hommage to two extraordinary women of distinction, alone but never lonely.
05/01/03
Top CriticMs. Dayan is to be commended for breathing even often-painful life into a relationship that was largely sealed off from the world outside.
04/15/03
Top CriticOverwhelmed by maudlin, somewhat empty musings on Art and Life.
04/04/03
Top CriticPatient viewers will be rewarded with a satisfying film that brings the ideas as well as the passions of the renowned French author to life.
04/03/03
Top CriticMoreau ... who knew Duras quite well and starred in no fewer than four films based on the writer's work, perfectly embodies her friend, and is thoroughly magnificent.
04/02/03
The famously difficult Duras comes off as a grumpy but lovable eccentric, a sort of Auntie Mame with bad moods, who encourages the puppyish Yann to find his own voice and follow his dream.
04/02/03
Top CriticMoreau ... gives one of her richest performances.
04/02/03
Top CriticDayan's film is a bizarrely attenuated experience, neglecting dramatic substance and context ... in favor of swooning hagiography.
04/01/03
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