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

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

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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 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

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

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

Anaïs in Love is as magnetic as its protagonist.

| May 14, 2022

Incredibly sensual -- movingly so.

| May 10, 2022

Director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s sexy little gem is as care-free and fun as a trip to the beach on a warm sunny day. But it has about as much substance as a string bikini.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2022

Call it millennial malaise, call it burnout, call it an annoying expression of privilege, but there’s a reason this character keeps popping up in fiction. And this film is among the best -- and gayest -- of the genre.

| Apr 29, 2022

Anaïs would be insufferable to know, but she’s arresting to watch, and it’s perfectly understandable why even the most even-keeled men -- and women -- who blow into her path find it so hard to look away.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 29, 2022

A humorous and alert lead performance from Anaïs Demoustier.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2022

You never doubt that the actress is committed, even if you think her character should be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2022

Bourgeois-Tacquet’s film is a merry-go-round, a kinetic portrait of a young woman stumbling out of love, falling into it, letting it go and picking it back up.

| Apr 29, 2022

Like any craftily layered confection, what at first presents itself as colorfully whipped reveals itself to be a more tangy, lasting bite.

| Apr 29, 2022

Chewy, complex themes make this otherwise light-as-a-feather, sexy, quirky, coming-of-age comedy much deeper, and more existential, than it seems.

| Apr 28, 2022

Anaïs and this movie [are] more intriguing than they initially appear.

| Apr 28, 2022

In the end, Bourgeois-Tacquet doesn’t need anything but the fireworks between Demoustier and Tedeschi.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 28, 2022