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The Man of My Life (2007)

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:10

Rotten:9

Average Rating:5.8/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Sep 26, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: A late-night discussion of love between two men--a married heterosexual and his gay neighbor--drives a wedge between the husband and his wife. Actor-turned-director Zabou Breitman helms this French... A late-night discussion of love between two men--a married heterosexual and his gay neighbor--drives a wedge between the husband and his wife. Actor-turned-director Zabou Breitman helms this French drama. [More]

Starring: Charles Berling, Lea Drucker, Bernard Campan

Starring: Charles Berling, Lea Drucker, Bernard Campan

Director: Zabou Breitman

Director: Zabou Breitman
Screenwriter: Zabou Breitman, Agnes de Sacy
Producer: Philippe Godeau
Composer: Laurent Korcia, Liviu Badiu
Studio: Strand Releasing

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

The Man of My Life has a hard time working up much beyond its visual prettiness.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
10/18/08
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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Ultimately, there aren't any pointed conclusions about the meaning of life here other than the rather obvious one that under the still waters of an idyllic Provencal river, the currents run deep

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
06/18/08
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com

he film has a loose, easy rhythm befitting its sun-splashed look.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
11/09/07
Mark Feeney
Mark Feeney
Boston Globe
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The most visually resplendent movie so far this year (photographed by Michel Amathieu), yet it lacks the rich balance of sex and intellect that makes an André Téchiné film great.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment Comment
10/03/07
Armond White
Armond White
New York Press

If the film ultimately amounts to little more than a midlife coming-of-age story, it's richly imagined and filled with fanciful touches that are in keeping with its passionate subject.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/26/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

All too often, though, characters bandy about platitudes like they’re tennis balls...or shout for no reason.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
09/25/07
Abigail Deutsch
Abigail Deutsch
Village Voice
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The film, a purported examination of male sexuality, was directed and written by women, and thus all we get is two super-sensitive men stroking each others' emotional baggage instead of licking each others' *****.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
09/23/07
Eric Henderson
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine

A special, often beautiful and profound film.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
09/21/07
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

It is beautiful, but ultimately empty and a little bit boring.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
09/21/07
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
Reel.com

A sumptuously illustrated but shallow fable of the grass-is-greener conflict between freedom and commitment.

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09/21/07
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Too much emphasis is placed on wall text that swirls around like the worst Magnetic Poetry.

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09/20/07
Melissa Anderson
Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York

Despite good acting and intriguing theme, attraction of married hetero to his gay neighbor, the film feels familiar, from its countryside setting to stereotypical treatment of the homosexual; French title, Man of Her Life, is more accurate and ironic, too

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
09/18/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Despite good acting and intriguing theme, attraction of a married hetero to his single gay neighbor, film feels minor and familiar, from the countryside setting to the stereotypical charcaters; French title (Man of Her Life) is more accurate and ironic

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09/18/07
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Director Zabou Breitman, who co-wrote the screenplay, maintains intrigue by regularly cutting back to scenes from the overnight conversation between Frederic and Hugo, adding new insights to the growing friendship.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/30/07
Ed Scheid
Ed Scheid
Boxoffice Magazine

It is the unique pleasures to be found in The Man of My Life that are what linger.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
06/19/07
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
Reeling Reviews

...felt like making a discovery...

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06/11/07
Laura Clifford
Laura Clifford
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Although the actors try gamely, they cannot fully rescue THE MAN OF MY LIFE from its flaws. There's a germ of a very good idea in the screenplay, but I just don't feel that the writers fully grasped what they were undertaking.

Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | comment Comment
05/07/07
Ted Murphy
Ted Murphy
Murphy's Movie Reviews

There is a terrific film hiding away in these two hours of good (but not great) artistic melodrama.

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10/09/06
Boyd van Hoeij
Boyd van Hoeij
european-films.net

A drama that steadily succumbs to self-conscious artiness, drunk on its own sense of contrived poetry and cloudy existential reflection.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/12/06
David Rooney
David Rooney
Variety
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