New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema

Bergery crafts an intimate portrait of loneliness and rediscovery, and of particular insecurities pertaining to a certain age.

Less would be more, as Beckett knew all too well.

This whole film isn't just about but on the fly, with Dupieux never letting the pace slip for so much as a few seconds of the short running time.

Garcia... takes the socio-economic circumstances as the core and builds her elegant thriller around it.

Too much and over the top, the film nevertheless finds its rhythm.

Bathily is superb, approaching his role with confidence but capturing the freshness and naivety essential to the character.

Artfully confected and directed with a light touch, this is a layered yet knowingly insubstantial creation, un amour choux.

Favier dials down the histrionics to concentrate on the manipulative way the coach plays around with the girl’s fragile emotions, reducing her to a despairing wreck.