The Girl From Paris (Une hirondelle a fait le printemps) Reviews
Top Critic... a realistic portrait of rural life.
| Original Score: 3/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
It's a small, simple movie, but, by the end, you feel like you've met two people you'd enjoy hanging with.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cinema Signals
Serrault's got all the appropriate nuances of this old codger down pat. I'm beginning to get the impression that it's who he is.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Filmcritic.com
excluded me at a basic level from its opening scenes on; when it was over, I felt as though I'd never made it in
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Las Vegas CityLife
Carion has concocted a simple story for complex times, one that realistically examines the passing of the torch from a traditionalist to a neophyte
San Diego Union-Tribune
[Carion] has honestly involving characters, and does not shirk the necessarily rude side of agri-life.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Pokey and maybe a bit too sincere, but it has its own integrity.
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| Original Score: 3/5
It is a nice character study of two people locked into themselves in different ways, and the slow path they each take to recognize their interdependence.
| Original Score: 3.5/5
May linger in the mind as a postcard collection of alluring mountain scenery, but there's not much in the way of lingering alpenglow at movie's end.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Film Freak Central
A dance to a post-war ditty shared by old man who misses the daughter he never knew--and a young woman who identifies him as the father of her imagined past.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Salt Lake Tribune
Seigner and Serrault give sweet, satisfying performances.
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| Original Score: 3/4
What director and cowriter Christian Carion has done with the film is give us a genuine feel for the simple joys, disappointments and mind-numbing routine of rural life.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The drama here is hardly earthshaking, but the movie has a quiet power, and the vivid emotions linger in the memory.
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| Original Score: 3/4
culturevulture.net
Thoughtful screenplay...interpreted in subtle and expert performances
Serrault is so good, so believable, that it never feels as if he's giving a performance -- even a good one.
| Original Score: 3/4
Wise, understated, warm and witty, it presents stars Michel Serrault and Mathilde Seigner in roles that fit them so perfectly they could have been tailor-made.
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| Original Score: 4/5
L.A. Weekly
The Girl From Paris is as briskly unsentimental as it is humane about people and nature.
Los Angeles Daily News
It's the stuff of formula ... [b]ut director Christian Carion, who co-wrote the film with Eric Assous, manages to keep you interested by gradually shifting the nature of the relationship between the old man and his protege.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
A lovely, keenly observed film.
| Original Score: 3/4
