Here, the times are changing and so is the plot. In fact, you can expect a mood swing every five minutes, in a story so muddled even the strong cast, including Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, can't save it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2008

This poignant, flashback flick, is worthwhile for the opportunity to see a couple of seasoned pros, its very well-acquainted leads, Oscar-nominees Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, opposite each other again, for the seventh time in their careers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2007

All but devoted cineastes will be disappointed.

| Feb 22, 2007

Clash of characters in love set against a clash of civilizations.

| Feb 1, 2007

Techine would have been better off ditching the supporting characters altogether and focusing on the relationship between Antoine and Cecile.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

[Techine's] observations of culture clashes... are thought-provoking but - like most of the movie - keep the audience emotionally separated from the characters' hearts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

A spare but rich film from French master technician Andr (C) T (C)chin (C).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2006

[a] strangely moving love story

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2006

Techine is so intrigued by the dramatic differences between the sisters that you might not even notice they are the same actress.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2006

French director Andre Techine sketches a family with the usual flaws, but takes the unusual step of not fixing them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 13, 2006

Volatile and sometimes daring performances by Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, and Lubna Azabal (as twins) contribute to the highly charged and novelistic experience.

| Aug 12, 2006

... another gorgeous and immensely satisfying reminder that there are few better directors than Techine when it comes to capturing the vagaries of the heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2006

If Changing Times' last shots don't touch you, your heart may be frozen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2006

Tchin...is back in form with this engrossing tale of the inconvenient passions that bubble beneath the surface among people who have accepted bourgeois compromise.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2006

Frenchman Techine proves again that he's a master of crafting seemingly ordinary events into a unique and exilarating world, and he's greatly helped by his superlative actors, Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve (in her fourth film with him).

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 5, 2006

... more drily sociological than dramatic.

| Original Score: C | Aug 4, 2006

Despite its weaknesses, Changing Times (Les Temps Qui Changent in French) is always watchable and even poignant from time to time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2006

This willfully slippery movie seems to make the case both for mixing it up and sticking to your own kind. Which is all of a piece with the sensibility of this wonderfully ambiguous filmmaker, a visionary of our changing times.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2006

A surprising entertainment for the mature among us.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 2, 2006

An interesting film experience, as much because of its chaotic narrative as in spite of it.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2006