The scenes between Germain and Margueritte are so strong that other sequences almost feel like filler.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 6, 2022

Gerard Depardieu remains one of the world's best living actors.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

A love story, but not the classic head-over-heels story where it's Juliet's destiny to meet her Romeo and live out a tragic situation that ends in tears. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2018

Margueritte is played by Gisèle Casadesus, a spry and still beautiful 96-year-old veteran... and one of the pleasures of Becker's film is being able to feast your eyes on a face like hers, which has an entire lifetime etched into its lines.

| Nov 27, 2017

My Afternoons with Margueritte itself is hardly brain food for viewers-it's more like a still-warm, home-baked cookie, celluloid comfort food.

| Mar 30, 2016

No será una gran película, pero es un raro ejemplar en estos días cuyo hallazgo produce un placer inusual. Gérard Depardieu ofrece una actuación conmovedora.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 24, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2011

There's no reason this cliché-ridden French drama should work, but it does, and there's the beauty of it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2011

a small charming film that only the French could create.

| Nov 2, 2011

Casadesus - at 97, a French national treasure who has been wowing stage and screen audiences since the 1930s - tenderly manages to make great literature sound like conversation, and vice versa.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2011

A sweet puff of a film, My Afternoons With Margueritte is as disarming as it is absurd.

| Original Score: B | Oct 14, 2011

[Depardieu] is as emblematic of his country as Tom Hanks is of ours, and "My Afternoons With Margueritte" is his "Forrest Gump." Only better.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2011

Only the good aspects of traditional village culture concern writer-director Jean Becker, who aims for charm rather than profundity, and hits the bull's-eye with this leisurely film.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 13, 2011

It's a lovely French character study.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2011

The two actors and director/co-writer Jean Becker treat it as if it were a masterpiece. And maybe it is.

| Oct 6, 2011

There isn't much to Jean Becker's movie, but what there is, is charming... You won't regret spending eighty minutes not only with Marguerite but with Germain, too.

| Original Score: B | Sep 29, 2011

The happy ending lays it on too thick, but what the hell: In for a dime, in for a dollar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2011

A predictable, undernourished love story.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 23, 2011

It's a lovely movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2011

Subtly sweet and compassionate, appealing to art-house filmgoers of a certain age.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 22, 2011