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This engaging French comedy has Fanny Ardant in Mrs Robinson mode as an improbably glamorous retired dentist who has an affair with a younger man. Jun 20, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This engaging French comedy has Fanny Ardant in Mrs Robinson mode as an improbably glamorous retired dentist who has an affair with a younger man.
Geoffrey Macnab
To the film's credit, no one finds the age gap that scandalous, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter. These are people at very different places in life. Jun 19, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
To the film's credit, no one finds the age gap that scandalous, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter. These are people at very different places in life.
Leslie Felperin
Don't hold your breath, or your heart: it's not exactly Brief Encounter. But Ardant has the moves. It's the younger cast members who must struggle to keep up. Jun 19, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Don't hold your breath, or your heart: it's not exactly Brief Encounter. But Ardant has the moves. It's the younger cast members who must struggle to keep up.
Nigel Andrews
Ardant gives a performance you just want to bask in, glowing with desire and desirability while avoiding cougarish mother-figure clichés. Jun 19, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Ardant gives a performance you just want to bask in, glowing with desire and desirability while avoiding cougarish mother-figure clichés.
Robbie Collin
We've seen variations on the character before. But Fanny Ardant's performance as the straitlaced wife ... is insightful and note-perfect. Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
We've seen variations on the character before. But Fanny Ardant's performance as the straitlaced wife ... is insightful and note-perfect.
Trevor Johnston
Ardant might wrestle with alienation, but Bright Days Ahead never risks alienating its self-satisfied target audience. May 8, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Ardant might wrestle with alienation, but Bright Days Ahead never risks alienating its self-satisfied target audience.
Ben Sachs
Bright Days Ahead is a likable piece offering reassurance that life begins, rather than ends, at sixty. Mar 25, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Bright Days Ahead is a likable piece offering reassurance that life begins, rather than ends, at sixty.
Edward Frost
Bright Days Ahead is a fitting title for a story about one woman's transition at a turning point of her life where time is no longer her enemy, but her anchor. Jun 20, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Bright Days Ahead is a fitting title for a story about one woman's transition at a turning point of her life where time is no longer her enemy, but her anchor.
Jon Lyus
A fine performance from Fanny Ardant elevates Marion Vernoux's intriguing if rarely riveting study of late-life passion. Jun 20, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A fine performance from Fanny Ardant elevates Marion Vernoux's intriguing if rarely riveting study of late-life passion.
David Parkinson
Bright Days is fairly lightweight stuff but Ardant's performance lends it conviction and poignancy. Jun 19, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Bright Days is fairly lightweight stuff but Ardant's performance lends it conviction and poignancy.
Allan Hunter
A lightweight but sincere glimpse at starting life when many are ending it. Jun 19, 2014 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
A lightweight but sincere glimpse at starting life when many are ending it.
Ron Wilkinson
This is twinkly wish-fulfilment on stilts, presumably aimed at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel fanclub, but it manages some funny jabs at ageism, and it's lovely to see Ardant being funny, vibrant and desirable. Jun 16, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This is twinkly wish-fulfilment on stilts, presumably aimed at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel fanclub, but it manages some funny jabs at ageism, and it's lovely to see Ardant being funny, vibrant and desirable.
Siobhan Synnot
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