It's a bit like a Woody Allen film without the kvetching or the wisecracks, but younger and more vital.
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06/24/06
Late August, Early September (1998)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:17
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Gabriel, an aspiring novelist, must reevaluate his personal life when his friend Adrien becomes suddenly ill. With his career in dire straits and his relationships with two women floundering,... [More]
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar
Director: Olivier Assayas
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Reviews for Late August, Early September
It is, in many ways, a modest film. But a director who offers glimpses of life that are recognizable in both detail and texture isn't so common that we can afford to overlook what he has achieved here.
01/01/00
Denis Lenoir's camera is almost always on the move, shoulder-borne, shuddering or looking for blurred close-up detail to put to use in the film's transitional sequences.
03/05/02
Assayas puts a shiny gloss on those who choose to live loose lives...
09/08/02
A kaleidoscopic but engrossing study of the shifting sands of friendship among a group of Parisians.
03/03/08
No review available.
07/17/05
Reveals the terrible fragility of male friendship and the ways in which it often disappoints those who invest it with burdens it cannot bear.
03/13/02
Assayas creates among the most well-realized characters in current cinema.
01/01/00
If Assayas doesn't always transport his film's events beyond the all too commonplace, his understatement can also yield moments of quiet simplicity.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe results may not be completely original or thought-provoking, but on whole, the movie is refreshingly honest and heartfelt.
01/01/00
The characters are all properly engaging and interesting, but the story feels the same as many others I've seen.
05/20/06
Assayas's sense of how relationships evolve between people over time is conveyed with a rich and vivid novelistic density.
03/03/08
Top CriticThe film doesn't leave the audience with a moral. It just leaves a sense of having been in the stimulating company of passionate people.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe cast is full of talented French actors -- Virginie Ledoyen, Francois Cluzet, Mathieu Amalric, Jeanne Balibar -- who play people with flaws and fears and who eventually reach a tender understanding.
04/03/02
The cast, including Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, and Mathieu Amalric, is as well coordinated as a fine chamber-music ensemble; their entrances and vanishings and re-entries play like recurring motifs.
01/01/00
Top Criticclever and thoughtful
09/19/04
Assayas avoids easy resolutions, and Ali Farka Toure's score reminds us that each year brings with it a possibility that one will change the cycle.
03/03/08
The individual plot lines fit together seamlessly and the cast is easy on the eye, but this melancholy trawl through the quagmire of modern relationships is not outstanding.
03/03/08
Although we cannot take our eyes off Ms. Balibar, whose performance is remarkable in its understated range of emotion, she is the only character with whom we can connect.
01/01/00
This is a slow, talky movie that seems to drift aimlessly without finding an involving storyline.
01/01/00
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