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Cast

François Cluzet
as Adrien

Mathieu Amalric
as Gabriel

Virginie Ledoyen
as Anne

Jeanne Balibar
as Jenny

Alex Descas
as Jeremie

Nathalie Richard
as Maryelle

Arsinée Khanjian
as Lucie

Mia Hansen-Løve
as Vera

Eric Elmosnino
as Thomas

Olivier Cruveiller
as Axel

Jean-Baptiste Malartre
as Editor

André Marcon
as Hattou

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Critic Reviews for Late August, Early September

Audience Reviews for Late August, Early September

• Feb 09, 2009

  I see the word "sublime" used in reference to this movie. Sublime is not the word I'd choose here. If anything, I'd place this in the anti-sublime camp. If there is any kind of transcendence in this film -- outside of death, it comes at the very end, where Vera, the 16-year-old ex-lover of the 41-year-old Adrien appears to finally find true happiness with a boyfriend in her own age range. <p>To qualify as sublime, I think a work needs to be rising above the mundane, the quotidian, the commonplace. I associate it with some kind of happiness, with joy, with a space positively positioned above the fray of the everyday. Rogers and Astaire dancing above all, every time they dance, is a sublime activity, for instance, elevating them almost into the realm of surreal bliss, both for them and for the audience. Ironically, the only real joy that can be found in this story is the joy of Vera dating a boy her own age -- what might be considered commonplace in any "normal" context. <p> This story reminds me of a pinball machine, with characters, none of them very thrilled with their lives, bouncing off of each other in a kind of random existential dance. In pinball, the downer is game over, the end of the game. Here, again almost ironically, the end of game is signaled by a pure expression of love at the close.
  Lanning : Super Reviewer

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