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Jacques Audiard's film isn't intended as a replacement for Toback's wild-eyed and masterly [Fingers], but rather a deliberately assured take on the same material.

Mademoiselle Chambon will appeal more to those who prefer their 'affair drama' narratives slow-burning and the characters almost painfully restrained.

OSS has style in spades.

Where the children's stories feel as nostalgically sweet as a Sherbet Dib-Dab and Delpy has always had a good feel for the comedy of discomfort, she fails to hold back and ultimately pushes the adults into caricature.

In the tradition of dans-vous-visage Gallic cinema, Three Dancing Slaves (Le Clan) cuts the audience no slack.

Like so many anthology films, it suffers from the fact that the sections are uneven, with the middle segment soaring high above the two bookend stories.

The cast give a good ensemble performance and the plot is engaging above the cliched love stories which we are fairly sure will result in a happy ending.

Unlike most sequels this can hold its own with the original, due in large part to the quality of the writing and strength of the interwoven plots.