Without preciousness or platitudes, Winocour and Efira plumb the stark and sometimes painful truth of what it means to commit to the world of the living.

| Dec 11, 2023

Although the impact of an atrocity such as the Bataclan attack is a shared, collective trauma on a national level, Winocour is at pains to point out that every experience is unique.

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

It’s powerful film-making, grounded by Efira’s enormous, often silent, central performance.

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

Virginie Efira has a calm solidity that has made her current French cinema’s most approachable Everywoman.

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

At all times, Efira is simply sublime as a woman whose life has suffered a cataclysmic reset, but who still manages love and compassion among the rubble.

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

Devastating, yet ultimately rewarding, Paris Memories [Revoir Paris] offers an alternative to the usual socio-political consideration of a terrorist attack by drawing a humane, kaleidoscopic portrait of various survivors’ crisis responses.

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

It’s a measured, quietly powerful film with a performance from Virginie Efira that seems almost telepathic at times; in scenes where she doesn’t say a word, barely twitching a muscle in her face, yet somehow you know what she’s feeling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2023

While many will find “Revoir Paris” moving, for me it’s because the performances do the heavy lifting, effortlessly, while the material lays everything out too neatly.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 7, 2023

It’s a sensitive, careful film with real emotional intelligence, but no less gripping for swerving dramatic fireworks in favour of quieter, more observational moments.

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

It’s in that soulful shift from repair’s confusion to renewal’s fullness where Revoir Paris is most powerful, dramatizing what it can mean to outlive something unimaginable -- and look at the world anew.

| Jun 30, 2023

Illuminated by a masterful performance by French actress Virginie Efira, Revoir Paris makes the unimaginable experience of surviving a violent attack beautifully real and painfully universal.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 26, 2023

Alice Winocour’s French film examines trauma and grief after gun violence, unfortunately burying the subtleties that shine brightest.

| Jun 23, 2023

Despite the tragedy, "Revoir Paris" is a hopeful film about the healing power of human connection and mutual comfort. It’s the kind of movie that lingers in the mind long after the credits roll.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2023

Even as Winocour piles on too many complications, she retains an appreciable astringency... that keeps bathos at bay. Together with the superb Efira, she earns your tears honestly.

| Jun 22, 2023

A quietly gutting ode to Paris’s resilience in the post-Bataclan era.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 2, 2023

Of all the films about these terrorist attacks that have premiered at Cannes, Winocour’s is the only one that gets inside the head of survivors and digs deep into their personal healing process.

| Jun 10, 2022

Winocour's delicate touch and Efira’s performance pay dividends.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2022

It’s a modest film with a heart very much on its torn sleeve, given force and ballast by another fine dramatic turn from the hard-working Virginie Efira.

| May 23, 2022

Winocour’s handling can be a bit too on-the-nose in places... But these elements slowly build toward a gut-punch of a finale.

| May 22, 2022