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Movie Info

Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows its customers to return to the time period of their choosing.

Rating:

R (Drug Use|Brief Violence|Language|Nudity|Sexual Content)
Genre:

romance
Original Language:

French (France)
Director:

Nicolas Bedos
Writer:

Nicolas Bedos
Runtime:

1h 55m
Production Co:

Les Films du Kiosque
Aspect Ratio:

Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Daniel Auteuil

Guillaume Canet

Doria Tillier

Pierre Arditi

Fanny Ardant

Denis Podalydès

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Critic Reviews for La belle époque

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (2)

It's comedy-drama that is not funny enough to count as a comedy and not plausible enough to count as a drama.

November 21, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
Where so many high-concept romantic comedies squander their one big idea, "La Belle Époque" leverages its own to remind how and why we fall in love in the first place...

June 3, 2019 | Full Review…

Peter Debruge
Variety
Everything clicks here, all the time.

May 22, 2019 | Full Review…

Todd McCarthy
Hollywood Reporter
A pleasingly strange comedy... takes a somewhat familiar high concept and applies it to the story of two men [growing] older, but not necessarily wiser.

November 23, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Andrew Parker
The Gate
At every turn we are reminded of the highly artificial and manipulative nature of the cinematic medium, even as we surrender to its seductions.

September 18, 2020 | Full Review…

John McDonald
Australian Financial Review
It's fluffy French fare that goes on a bit too long, but it does a fine job playing around with the rom-com formula and is graced with a typically super performance by Auteuil, a veteran whose formidable filmography is longer than a supermarket receipt.

September 1, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Jim Schembri
jimschembri.com
If you're looking for something funny, charming and different, put La Belle Époque on your must-see list.

August 31, 2020 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Matthew Toomey
ABC Radio Brisbane
Reality and fantasy blur in this joyous return to the 1970s.

August 28, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Lynden Barber
Limelight
Nicolas Bedos' melancholically French character piece has lovely performances and some charming humour - although its mixed messages are perhaps a little screwy.

August 17, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

David 'Mad Dog' Bradley
Adelaide Review
Daniel Auteuil is reliably likeable as a lost man pining for a simpler time when everything was before him.

August 14, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Andiee Paviour
Nobody's Reading This But Me
It's all very charming and delightful and will bring a smile to your dial. That makes it top entertainment for the current era. Auteuil is typically winning.

August 13, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

CJ Johnson
Film Mafia
This is simply lovely stuff, and is a genuinely loving and romantic film, one that will leave you with a foolish grin on your face.

May 4, 2020 | Full Review…

Andrew F. Peirce
The Curb