| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

A moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places, unexamined lives.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2002

It's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies, but the word perfectly describes Pauline & Paulette.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2002

The acting in Pauline And Paulette is good all round, but what really sets the film apart is Debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 2002

Although there's nothing profound about Pauline and Paulette, it does have a few memorably sly digs at the kinds of things we believe to be profound.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 2002

Simple, poignant and leavened with humor, it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionship.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2002

By the time the movie is through ... you realize that the simplicity of the story and its characters have taken root in your mental landscape and will assume a lingering presence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2002

A movie that doesn't aim too high, but doesn't need to.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 12, 2002

Yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions, in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble, teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "superior" friends, family...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 12, 2002

A Belgian gem on the twilight existence of four sisters of a certain age drawn together reluctantly by the need to care for one of their number.

| Apr 11, 2002

A touching, small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2002

A worthwhile glimpse into how humans can begin to become whole.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Apr 4, 2002

Petersen and van der Groen play affectingly against each other in this geriatric heartwarmer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2002

All the actors are good in Pauline & Paulette but van der Groen, described as 'Belgium's national treasure,' is especially terrific as Pauline.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Tart, smart and satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2002

[T]his beguiling Belgian fable, very much its own droll and delicate little film, has some touching things to say about what is important in life and why.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2002

A charmer from Belgium.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2002

A subtle, poignant picture of goodness that is flawed, compromised and sad.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2002

A sensitively handled tale of four sisters yoked together by the disabilities of one.

| Mar 12, 2002