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Lover for a Day offers an absorbing character study that's as well-acted and believable as it is beautifully filmed.
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Garrel creates a sort of classically French ambience, somewhere between the nervous energy of Godard and the emotional perspicacity of Renoir. April 8, 2020 | Full Review…
Garrel creates a sort of classically French ambience, somewhere between the nervous energy of Godard and the emotional perspicacity of Renoir.
J. R. Jones
Realism keeps this story grounded, even when its characters give soaring voice to their deepest hopes and frustrations. January 25, 2018 | Full Review…
Realism keeps this story grounded, even when its characters give soaring voice to their deepest hopes and frustrations.
Justin Chang
Lover for a Day could not be any more French (in the pejorative sense) if it tried. January 19, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Lover for a Day could not be any more French (in the pejorative sense) if it tried.
Kevin Maher
Lover for a Day returns the French film-maker Philippe Garrel to his evergreen - or evermonochrome - subjects of sex, jealousy and love. January 19, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Lover for a Day returns the French film-maker Philippe Garrel to his evergreen - or evermonochrome - subjects of sex, jealousy and love.
Peter Bradshaw
Packs a whole lot of nuance and romantic consideration into its bracingly curt run time. January 19, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Packs a whole lot of nuance and romantic consideration into its bracingly curt run time.
Ian Barr
[Garrel] keeps matters light and tells the story of his three protagonists' ever more complicated and contradictory love lives with gentle and beguiling humour. January 17, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
[Garrel] keeps matters light and tells the story of his three protagonists' ever more complicated and contradictory love lives with gentle and beguiling humour.
Geoffrey Macnab
Even dismaying in its conclusion, the auteur crafts it with sufficient élan to deserve a favorable mention. January 31, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Even dismaying in its conclusion, the auteur crafts it with sufficient élan to deserve a favorable mention.
Filipe Freitas
Comparatively light to my previous experiences with the French auteur, Lover for Day is nevertheless suffused with all the subtle delights that come from Philippe Garrel's brand of cinema. October 28, 2018 | Full Review…
Comparatively light to my previous experiences with the French auteur, Lover for Day is nevertheless suffused with all the subtle delights that come from Philippe Garrel's brand of cinema.
Daniel Nava
With so much of the film... spent with its characters unloading what's on their minds, the expressive Garrel fille turns what's roiling around her skull into continual visceral intrigue. October 19, 2018 | Full Review…
With so much of the film... spent with its characters unloading what's on their minds, the expressive Garrel fille turns what's roiling around her skull into continual visceral intrigue.
Stephen Saito
Alluring melodramatic romantic triangle. June 17, 2018 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Alluring melodramatic romantic triangle.
Dennis Schwartz
A film made to measure. [Full Review in Spanish] May 18, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A film made to measure. [Full Review in Spanish]
Phillipp Engel
Garrel constructs a film that represses heavy exposition in order to deposit full confidence in its characters and their gestures and words. [Full Review in Spanish] May 5, 2018 | Full Review…
Garrel constructs a film that represses heavy exposition in order to deposit full confidence in its characters and their gestures and words. [Full Review in Spanish]
Jordi Costa
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