Other People’s Children is a tapestry of love, a film about the obstacles in becoming part of a family and the painful act of detachment. And it is a film about the flow of life and time ticking away

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 25, 2024

“Other People’s Children” is a real gem of a film with its engaging characters, stellar performances, and marvellous affinity for the intricacies of life.

| Jul 17, 2024

Efira may be as radiant as a Botticelli angel, but it's her no-nonsense directness that gets you.

| Dec 18, 2023

The trials and tribulations of being a woman at 40 are uniquely realized in this compelling French drama.

| Dec 8, 2023

Other People’s Children is a film that matters, full of fine performances. It just takes a wrong turn, that’s all.

| Oct 25, 2023

Neither reducing Rachel to her childlessness nor ignoring its emotional impact on her, this is a deeply empathetic movie that never questions the completeness of its protagonist’s life.

| Oct 21, 2023

This is a good old-fashioned movie made with such intelligence, humanity and know-how that it’s better than most of the new-fashioned movies made in recent years.

| Sep 15, 2023

In full complicity with her performers, the scriptwriter and director builds with sheer sensitivity, patience, and charm, everyday, mundane situations, in which conflicts arise... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2023

Efira coats her character with palpable integrity, makes us know her and feel with her, and wait along with her in anticipation of what the future may hold. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2023

Other People’s Children (Les enfants des autres) encapsulates, with humanistic tendencies, the happiness and heartaches of motherhood.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 29, 2023

In this relatable, sensitive relationship drama set in the city of love, intense emotions are explored but the mood is low-key, as a woman, a highly empathetic Virginie Efira in the role, suddenly realises that her chances of motherhood are slipping away

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2023

The film concerns itself with quotidian life, confident that this is enough to keep us interested. In this writer and director Rebecca Zlotowski is proven right: it is more than enough.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2023

Love may not be all you need when your bf’s little daughter enters the equation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2023

[F]or anyone seeking reassurance that other peoples’ happiness doesn’t have to define their own, this film offers a warm reminder that sometimes the most satisfying stories write their own endings.

| Jun 15, 2023

You’ll gladly accept ‘Other People’s Children’ and embrace Efira's heartfelt performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2023

The topic, rarely addressed in cinema, is treated with luminous candor and simplicity by Zlotowski, whose attentive gaze is empowered by Efira’s performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2023

There’s more to the film than one single thread, as all scenes come together in a finely embroidered garment of great cinematic depth.

| May 18, 2023

It tells a small-canvas story that loses none of its poignancy for refusing to overreach or give into fatal self-seriousness.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 17, 2023

It's beautiful... It's human relationships and all these wonderful series of emotional dilemmas that everyone connects to.

| May 17, 2023

Virginie Efira is such a luminous presence. She's so nuanced and fully drawn.

| May 17, 2023