Intersecting stories of heartbreak and loneliness seen a thousand times. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2020

It is a beautifully crafted work, with lovely cinematography by Eric Gautier and a sharp screenplay by Jean-Michel Ribes, that finds hope in a world where life doesn't always work out the way it was planned.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A graceful roundelay of disconnection

| Aug 27, 2009

What makes Private Fears so extraordinary is not just how it completely upends the expectations that have come to seem inherent in such a structure, but how Resnais constantly pushes the boundaries of his, well, let's call it visual depiction.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 4, 2008

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

There is a different side to everyone in Alain Resnais' enigmatic film about six strangers whose Parisian lives randomly intersect.

| Nov 30, 2007

What reaches us, most of all, are the hidden, unmet longings that keep the film's Parisian characters from finding true happiness.

| Oct 27, 2007

A gentle look at the pain of loneliness that almost all of us feel from time to time.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 12, 2007

A feast for the eyes.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 4, 2007

Warm and wry, funny and sad, cute and complicated.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 20, 2007

Not one he'll be remembered for, but a cut above.

| Jul 20, 2007

While there's a quirky humour at work, the overall mood is of sadness, eloquently, if repetitively, expressed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2007

Private Fears is so fluently made that its edginess only gradually becomes evident. It's both funny and sad, without underlining anything, and the playing is as good as you would expect from Resnais's regulars.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2007

Ayckbourn's play might have made frothy fun of this comedie humaine, on screen this feels a poor, airless thing.

| Jul 20, 2007

This French film based on a play by Scarborough's finest Sir Alan Ayckbourn is best described as a little bit pedestrian.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 20, 2007

Quiet desperation is an emotion you'll probably feel as you wait for the movie to end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 20, 2007

The theatrical, colour-coded sets, graceful camerawork and scene-bridging snowfall motif create a quasi-fairytale feel. But it's the beautifully tuned ensemble acting that infuses this funny, sad treat with real humanist heft.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2007

No one would argue that this slight six-hander is one of Resnais's greatest movies, but it's far from an embarrassment, and even its strained comic business is enclosed within a prevailing atmosphere of wistful resignation.

| Jul 20, 2007