| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Discreet, delicate and humane: a sweet butterfly of a movie that beats up a cinematic windstorm of life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2002

A mild but engaging romance, the charms of which come at you sideways.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2002

It strives mightily to convince us that the Chaos Theory rules us, yet everything in it feels preordained.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 15, 2002

The idea, after all, is that people don't have free will, and who wants to watch puppets, however adorable?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 15, 2002

Each little action, as we see, causes something bigger to happen, resulting in not exactly a tidal wave, but a happy sense of cinematic pleasure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2002

An utterly delightful fable of romantic destiny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2002

One look at Tautou's Irene and love has a face, if not a name.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2002

Occasionally alternates between inspired and facile, but balances its romantic notions with a touch of cynicism.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2002

Overall the film is well crafted and pleasantly head-snapping.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 8, 2002

Not nearly as fun or profound as it might have been.

Full Review | Dec 28, 2001

It brims with the charm, wisdom and light touch that have endeared French films to international audiences for more than a century.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2001

Minor but winning French ensemble movie.

| Original Score: B | Nov 16, 2001

Tatou ... gives a more interesting performance than she did in her overly bossy, fussy title role in Amlie.

| Nov 14, 2001

A celebration of the surprises that pop up like sidewalk blossoms through the gray surface of daily life, and it is also one of those surprises.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2001

The ensemble cast ... is personable and the Parisian ambiance is catching.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2001

Much of Happenstance comes across as a cinematic parlor game. But what a fun game it is.

| Nov 2, 2001

Firode's characters are hardly far apart, and their arbitrary connections are seductive but trite.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2001

Firode's drones aren't so much victims to fate than they are passive believers in chance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 26, 2001