This is an unromanticised look at a sometimes irritating but pleasantly realistic woman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Anaïs Demoustier charms as a big ball of energy in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s fleeting but enjoyable Anaïs in Love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2024

Although humanly flawed and some decisions aren’t meant to be applauded (yet understandable), Demoustier makes the character charming, tangible, and alluring.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 21, 2023

Refusing to judge and dotting the action with highbrow allusions, Bourgeois-Tacquet frees the camera to keep up with Demoustier,whose tour de force display touches on screwball brilliance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Sums up everything we love about Le Cinéma Français: idealised but pragmatic, witty but razor-sharp, playful but realistic. In Bourgeois-Tacquet' feature debut, this is confident filmmaking that establishes her as a name to watch in French cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

A delicious set-up -- shame about the spark-free pay-off.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2022

It may be hard to care about this egotist’s love life, but the film’s civilised, breezy manner and its sunny rural locations (recalling Eric Rohmer movies) are easy to like.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2022

More than anything, it’s Anaïs’s vitality that makes her irresistible (in the true sense of that word) and because she adheres to what passes in her world for a code of moral integrity: duty to oneself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Demoustier so supercharges her performance with charisma, she almost seems to sparkle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

There are moments of high farce in Anaïs in Love, but beneath its polished surface lurk melancholy undercurrents.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

... Achingly unoriginal.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 19, 2022

An enjoyable if contrived French comedy that often feels like a parody of the genre. Unlike Léonor Serraille’s Jeune Femme, Anais has none of the charm or the fully formed ideas of the film it is so desperate to emulate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Bourgeois-Tacquet’s debut feature offers superficial reminders of Eric Rohmer, but the humour — and more serious juxtapositions — are closer in tone to Woody Allen at his best (a director much admired by the French, of course).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

There’s a pleasant nuance to the way Anaïs in Love depicts the burgeoning romance of its second half.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2022

French queer cinema is striding out at its best in Anaïs In Love, set to be a sure-fire comfort hit for many generations to come.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2022

That is the journey of the emotionally arresting Anaïs in Love: the sharp, 93-minute film is not so much a linear romance as it is a portrait of chaotic, impulsive but ultimately fulfilling love.

| Aug 18, 2022

Fizzy and bubbly, the film feels like a cool glass of lemonade on a hot day, leaving us with a pleasant reminder of the thrills that summer can bring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2022

An offbeat and quirky romantic comedy which lives and dies by how much you can sympathise and empathise with its lead.

| Aug 15, 2022

Much like its vibrant protagonist (played with naive sincerity by Anaïs Demoustier), the romantic comedy Anaïs in Love fizzes with irrepressible energy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2022

The title character of Anaïs in Love blurs the lines between being a free spirit and being a selfish flake. Whether or not viewers will like her or dislike her, Anaïs keeps people interested in seeing what she'll do next.

| Jul 5, 2022