I've Loved You So Long is partly a mystery (what did Juliette do that was so terrible?), but more importantly it is also a study of rehabilitation and of sisterly love.

| Nov 21, 2020

A remarkable film marked by remarkable performances that stand strong among the year's finest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2019

While Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married was a self-indulgent melodrama, French writer-director Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long is an elegant and moving family drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 12, 2018

The reason to see I've Loved You So Long is quite simple: Kristin Scott Thomas.

| Dec 30, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Kristin Scott Thomas seems to want to move things in a ( ... )more challenging direction, but I've Loved You So Long is too polite, too bent on being emotionally accessible, to follow her.

| Sep 10, 2010

Un relato sensible y sutil sobre la reconstrucción de un vínculo interrumpido traumáticamente. Más que atendible debut en la dirección del escritor Philippe Claudel, con estupendas actuaciones de sus protagonistas femeninas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2009

This moving French film about the reunion of two sisters long separated by circumstances and guilt is must-see cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 6, 2009

Too predictable.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 6, 2009

The well-drawn, intriguing characters and vividly realistic situations make for an interesting story that holds your attention. The conversations are natural and succinct.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2009

Philippe Claudel's "I've Loved You So Long" finds Kristen Scott Thomas giving one of last year's best performances in one of last year's better films.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 14, 2009

The last-act revelation leaves the audience off the hook in a way that's more common for a soothing Hollywood picture than this sort of challenging French import.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2009

In the hands of Kristin Scott Thomas it becomes the story of one woman's struggle with the events of her life...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2009

Remarkable directorial debut of French novelist Claudel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2009

Reminds us of how truly brilliant filmmaking needs none of the technology and bombast Hollywood has come to depend on.

Full Review | Original Score: 90/100 | Feb 26, 2009

Don't let the Harlequin Romance title fool you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2009

Claudel has made a very special kind of star vehicle -- the kind that's also a very good movie overall.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2009

The movie's fascinating when it tracks Juliette's tentative, almost unwilling progress back into society.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2009

The ending is a cop-out: It lets the audience off the hook while congratulating it for its empathy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 9, 2009