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[La Petite Lili] remains a decidedly halfhearted attempt to rework the romantic entanglements of The Seagull. Sep 29, 2017 | Full Review…
[La Petite Lili] remains a decidedly halfhearted attempt to rework the romantic entanglements of The Seagull.
Richard Porton
Miller crafts a warmly, but not entirely optimistic fable about the salutary power of lazy afternoons, meals taken at dusk beneath outdoor tents and, ultimately, of moviemaking itself. Mar 24, 2005 | Full Review…
Miller crafts a warmly, but not entirely optimistic fable about the salutary power of lazy afternoons, meals taken at dusk beneath outdoor tents and, ultimately, of moviemaking itself.
Scott Foundas
A film that adapts the basic Russian classic and then breaks away in more ways than just the setting. Jan 14, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A film that adapts the basic Russian classic and then breaks away in more ways than just the setting.
Marta Barber
Miller, a French director of dry humor and great skill, has taken the Chekhov outline and updated it to present-day France, substituting the cinema for literature. Dec 10, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Miller, a French director of dry humor and great skill, has taken the Chekhov outline and updated it to present-day France, substituting the cinema for literature.
Roger Ebert
Like the play, it's acutely perceptive, universally empathetic and humane. Dec 9, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/4
Like the play, it's acutely perceptive, universally empathetic and humane.
Michael Wilmington
Talky, pointless exercise. Nov 12, 2004 | Rating: 1.5/4
Talky, pointless exercise.
V.A. Musetto
those hoping for a dramatic finish are going to come up short Jul 23, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
those hoping for a dramatic finish are going to come up short
Christopher Null
It's a simple story, but it's sort of satisfying to see the way they come full circle, using 'the movie within the movie' concept to wrap everything up. Jun 17, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
It's a simple story, but it's sort of satisfying to see the way they come full circle, using 'the movie within the movie' concept to wrap everything up.
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
A rather slight work, but especially for those acquainted with 'The Seagull' it should prove an intriguing exercise in translation. Jun 13, 2005 | Rating: B | Full Review…
A rather slight work, but especially for those acquainted with 'The Seagull' it should prove an intriguing exercise in translation.
Frank Swietek
The understated, unsettling sexuality of Ludivine Sagnier vamps James Deanish-Robinson Stévenin in Claude Miller's attractive adaptation of Checkov's The Seagull. Mar 28, 2005 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
The understated, unsettling sexuality of Ludivine Sagnier vamps James Deanish-Robinson Stévenin in Claude Miller's attractive adaptation of Checkov's The Seagull.
Tony Medley
Sagnier plays her sensuality for all it's worth... which is undisguised and considerable, and provides the glue for a tale that could easily come apart. Mar 7, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Sagnier plays her sensuality for all it's worth... which is undisguised and considerable, and provides the glue for a tale that could easily come apart.
Jules Brenner
The film explores the conflict between idealistic youth and pragmatic maturity, respecting each in turn, but succeeds best in underscoring the power of youthful sexuality. Dec 8, 2004 | Full Review…
The film explores the conflict between idealistic youth and pragmatic maturity, respecting each in turn, but succeeds best in underscoring the power of youthful sexuality.
Wendy Weinstein
Quite an entertaining tale of a young girl taking advantage of what is before her to launch a career in film. There are scars, and hearts are broken, but life goes on. One time lovers Lili (Ludivine Sagnier) and Julien (Robinson Stevenin) collaborate on a short film that gets her noticed by Julien's mother's lover, a french movie director, Brice (Bernard Girardeau). Lili leaves with the older man and thereby becomes a star. When she finds out that Julien is making a film about the events of that summer, she angles for the part to play herself. Will the former lovers be able to set aside past hurts, or will the memory of old wounds open new rifts? On this the film hinges. Lots of lovely scenery, including a fully nude Sagnier early on, but a clear winner with or without it. Touching story that felt honest in the company of people to whom honesty is not seen as a virtue.
Super Reviewer
[font=Century Gothic]"La Petite Lili" takes place in the French countryside where Julien(Robinson Stevenin) is a budding filmmaker who has just completed a short film starring his girlfriend, Lili(Ludivine Sagnier). He disdains the more commercial instincts of his stepfather, Brice(Bernard Girardeau), himself a successful director. At the screening, everything goes well until Julien is distracted by the fidgeting of his mother, Mado(Nicole Garcia), and stalks off...[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"La Petite Lili" is a fairly moribund film about the loves and conflicts of family and friends during a weekend at the countryside until the last part of the movie where those events are put in sharp focus and the movie becomes much more interesting. [/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]Note: With the exception of Luc Besson, I have never thought of French cinema as being particularly commercial, but then I guess it is a matter of perspective.[/font]
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