It's awesome to see the director having continued to crank out thought-provoking, challenging and effective cinema even if the film doesn't quite fire on all cylinders.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

Lelouch's is a pleasingly serpentine story that will keep viewers guessing.

| Jan 28, 2020

Lelouch's splintered narrative, mostly related in flashback, plays games with the characters without delivering much of a payoff.

| Aug 15, 2011

Stylist Claude Lelouche (A Man and a Woman) is still full of surprises in his choice of genres and subjects.

| Original Score: B | Aug 9, 2011

The air of Gallic nonchalance ensures you have a lot of fun watching Pinon and Ardant match wits. It's Dana, however, who anchors the story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 14, 2008

An engaging, enjoyable slice of suspense from the French.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 14, 2008

Is it supposed to be funny, tragic or what? Even the characters don't seem too sure.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 13, 2008

There's a lushness and emotional charge here that makes this very watchable. Don't expect poetry, though; it's more like a good crossword puzzle.

| Nov 7, 2008

It's surprising, enthralling, intriguing, blackly droll, and a rattling good yarn.

| Nov 7, 2008

Red herrings abound and audience frustration sets in. It's a pity because the film looks good and the Gilbert Becaud songs on the soundtrack are easy on the ear.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 7, 2008

It's filled with intriguing characters, it has a fascinating initial premise -- and then it runs off the rails.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2008

The thriller elements that become the crucial threads in the third act are a bit clunky and the resolution is not convincing, either dramatically or romantically, but the film is nonetheless an entertaining journey

| Oct 31, 2008

Lelouch surprises us at every turn and we never know where the story is going to take us.

| Oct 31, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

It's too bad you can't shove a new theatrical release into your beach bag, as if it were a well-worn paperback.

| Sep 10, 2008

Lelouch is now 71 years old, and I bet he's never had as much fun with a film. Roman de Gare threads plots and characters and twists together like a demented weaver.

| Aug 22, 2008

The ever-appealing Fanny Ardant and the enigmatic, pug-faced character actor Dominique Pinon have many subtle delights up their sleeves, and newcomer Audrey Dana is a revelation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

... about the creation of fiction, the way we spin lies together into a simulacrum of life - if there's any philosophical point of view beyond that it's that every narrative is necessarily an abridgment of truth.

| Original Score: 86/100 | Aug 1, 2008

What's especially clever about the plotting is that anything that proves to be merely a red herring is then incorporated into another storyline.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 24, 2008