Despite moments of outstanding filmmaking, however, the underwhelming and uninspired plot unfortunately inhibits the movie from being truly special.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Garrel creates a sort of classically French ambience, somewhere between the nervous energy of Godard and the emotional perspicacity of Renoir.

| Apr 8, 2020

Even dismaying in its conclusion, the auteur crafts it with sufficient élan to deserve a favorable mention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2019

With so much of the film... spent with its characters unloading what's on their minds, the expressive Garrel fille turns what's roiling around her skull into continual visceral intrigue.

| Oct 19, 2018

Alluring melodramatic romantic triangle.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 17, 2018

A film made to measure. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 18, 2018

Garrel constructs a film that represses heavy exposition in order to deposit full confidence in its characters and their gestures and words. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 5, 2018

A flat script full of vapid conversations that take place in generic places. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 4, 2018

Lover For A Day forms a beautiful triptych with [director Philippe Garrel's] two previous films, Jealousy and In The Shadow of Women, shot in beautiful black and white and alternating digital with the 35mm format. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2018

The most sensitive of the French filmmakers condenses his signature styles, obsessions and women... in one of his best emotional fables. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 30, 2018

[Director Philippe] Garrel is a stylist in the sense that he films neatly, allows his actors to elaborate the scenes from the inside out and most of the times the sequences, when they reach their end, usually surprise the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 26, 2018

[There is] a lucid balance between intentions, method and results... [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2018

So, Lover For a Day goes to few unexplored places. But it works sweetly within its familiar genre.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2018

Filmed in an elegant black and white, with a magnificent trio of actors in which shines especially the debutante Chevillote. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2018

Despite its flaws, Lover for a Day is a thoughtful piece of cinema. Viewers won't be disappointed by the sympathetic narrative and will especially enjoy Garrel and Chevillotte.

| Jan 29, 2018

Philippe Garrel's latest French relationship kerfuffle boasts solid acting and credibly crafted behavior, as all of the director's black-and-white, latter-day Nouvelle Vague dramas do.

| Jan 26, 2018

Though the film's stylings are a little mannered, the two female leads are compelling screen presences, especially Garrel, who relishes the melodrama of fresh heartbreak.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 25, 2018

No great dramatic surprises occur, but the film is a subtle, civilised offering for those who like this sort of thing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2018

Realism keeps this story grounded, even when its characters give soaring voice to their deepest hopes and frustrations.

| Jan 25, 2018

Lover for a Day could not be any more French (in the pejorative sense) if it tried.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 19, 2018