My Donkey, My Lover & I isn’t going to break the mold, but it’s an easy stride of a film that’s bubbling with joy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2022

See the great Laure Calamy act while tending to a donkey in this delightful film. It's even more temperamental than French movie stars.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 31, 2022

"My Donkey, my lover and I" or its original name in French "Antoinette dans Les Cévennes", it is in plain words a delicious French comedy that will still your heart. [Full review in Spanish].

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2022

Not only is it the perfect vicarious-escape fare for those stuck staycationing this summer, it is also at times extremely funny.

| Jul 27, 2022

It’s a vintage Disney fairy tale made real. That’s when you know that Vignal has interpreted the dream roots of contemporary anxiousness -- lost innocence and wonder.

| Jul 27, 2022

With its easy pace and genial company, “My Donkey, My Lover & I” is a journey worth taking, even if, at the end of the day, there’s no cozy French inn waiting for you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2022

The scenes with Antionette and Patrick, the donkey, are oft-repeated and unimaginative, playing again and again until our patience wears thin. But most of all, the biggest problem with the film is not being funny enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 27, 2022

The road to self-awareness is paved with too much cringe.

| Original Score: 50/100 | Jul 25, 2022

There's lots of warmth throughout the film and some surprising details.

| Jul 22, 2022

Very slight but very pleasant, generally pretty funny, has a cute score to it and whips right by.

| Jul 22, 2022

Laure Calamy is an instantly likable actress with a wonderful gift of physical comedy, which is put to good use by writer/director Caroline Vignal. A gorgeous film set in Southern France that offers the perfect cinematic escapism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2022

The film is not without its awkward moments, the comic bits—especially those with Patrick—overplayed beyond their welcome, but little by little this Gallic farce begins to work its magic.

| Jul 22, 2022

The film is a genial, summery excursion that makes the most of its star Laure Calamy, as a Parisian schoolteacher who pursues her married lover and his family on a multiday hike in the Cévennes mountains in southern France.

| Jul 22, 2022

Vignal’s film, though formally sparse and perhaps even unoriginally accepting of its protagonist’s girlish naïveté, proves ultimately endearing.

| Jul 22, 2022

[An] ultimately charming trifle.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2022

Antoinette’s self-absorption exists in the context of a summer holiday film, a staple of French cinema, one that allows chatty characters with the means to get away the opportunity to stretch out and wait for the world to spin them toward happy endings.

| Jul 22, 2022

Each of the title characters in this breezy French farce is a bit of an ass, so it’s difficult to find much sympathy for their navigation of various relationship travails.

| Jul 22, 2022

[Antoinette] (and actor Calamy) surprises us by being as charming as any rom-com protagonist in recent memory.

| Jul 21, 2022

Calamy delivers a beautifully open performance at the center of an utterly winning comedy about the most important journey a person can take: toward finding themselves.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 21, 2022

Effectively threading the needle between Au Hasard Balthazar and Legally Blonde (a phrase that I’ve waited my entire life to write), Vignal’s comic tale of self-discovery is as light and gentle as the rolling terrain that it travels.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 21, 2022