Varda does a wonderful job here both at capturing history and analyzing the future.

| Jul 8, 2023

One sings; the other doesn't. None of that matters. In Ms. Varda's world, an ideal yet to be realized, they are the same -- root and stock. They are women.

| Mar 8, 2023

It's light, easy on the eye, and almost guaranteed to leave everyone in an ebullient mood.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2023

It is to director Varda's credit that the portrayals ring so true, and touch so deeply.

| Mar 8, 2023

While One Sings, the Other Doesn't is obviously a strong personal statement about women now, it is so beautifully particularized by the storyteller and her principals that it is a demonstration and never a lecture.

| Mar 8, 2023

Unlike films about male friendship, where the two guys do everything together as a team, One Sings, the Other Doesn't offers a more natural, leisurely set of circumstances with the two women drifting in and out of each other's lives.

| Mar 8, 2023

It is ravishingly photographed, starring two warm, accomplished and beautiful actresses, and shot through with a number of flaws at least as interesting as its strengths.

| Mar 8, 2023

Here is a motion picture that speaks wisely, eloquently and with real spirit to the essence of womanhood and, by extension, to what it means to be human.

| Mar 8, 2023

It ought to be seen although, while watching it, I'm not always sure why. The reason is that Varda's politics, intelligent and perceptive as they are, sometimes work against her talents as a filmmaker.

| Mar 8, 2023

The sunshiny simplicity of the feminist movement celebrated here is so laughable that you can't hate the picture. You just feel that some of your brain cells have been knocked out.

| Mar 8, 2023

It might sound -- and might well have been -- an artificial and schematic tract. It is not so at all, partly because Varda has constructed it so subtly that it flows as naturally as time itself; partly because of the richness of the two main performances.

| Mar 8, 2023

It makes the camaraderie of male action-films pale by comparison. And it is presented naturally, without a hint of hardness or eccentricity.

| Mar 8, 2023

[The film] has some good sequences in it, is beautifully acted by two actresses who are new to me, is handsomely composed but, at key moments, it's as phony as Soviet neo-realist art. It's of less interest as a movie than as a statement of position.

| Mar 8, 2023

Varda has failed to find a satisfying emotional narrative to communicate her personal conviction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2023

Ms. Varda's way is straightforward, leisurely and enjoyable acted by Valérie Mairesse and Thérèse Liotard.

| Mar 8, 2023

It's a very novelistic movie; I haven't seen a film in years with so much plot. But Varda's handling of it is so warm-hearted that one is totally absorbed.

| Mar 7, 2023

Though Valérie Mairesse and Thérèse Liotard are captivating performers and Varda's direction has a sweet, unforced race, the result is a movie whose emotional temperature never rises above lukewarm.

| Mar 7, 2023

Serious issues are adroitly skirted around and the picture has about it a curious passivity at odds with its evident message about the painful achievement on self-hood and independence.

| Mar 7, 2023

Both engrossing and deeply flawed... Still, and perhaps because so few movies have been made about the subject of women on the brink of momentous decisions, we are captivated by Varda's observations.

| Mar 7, 2023

Despite its progressive tone, oddly reminscent of Soviet films that used to enthuse over the brighter day ahead and urge their publics optimistically onward, "One Sings" represents a regression in every crucial respect.

| Mar 7, 2023