This is a film for the happy few perhaps -- but that audience will find it eminently satisfying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2021

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

There's barely a laugh or a smile in the entire film and, after a while, there's just so much quietly desperate angst and anomie a viewer can take.

| Mar 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Feels like one idea stretched into a modest, colorful display. But what a sweet display it is.

| Sep 2, 2005

Becomes a quiet tribute to friendship, and to the way that something torn can be made perfect again.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2005

At its best, the film is as delicate and lovely as the gorgeous sequin-embroidered designs the women spin on spider webs of diaphanous materials.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 11, 2005

Sequins is a lovely calling card for its maker and its stars.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 10, 2005

...lonore Faucher's film is a timeless, multi-layered affair of artistry, apprenticeship, friendship and love

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 22, 2005

Touched with eerie dream sequences, the film casts a strange spell that's enhanced by the rhythmic, almost sensual depiction of the painstaking art of embroidery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2005

lonore Faucher's quietly assured debut is a lovely, almost painfully intimate story of female bonding that never panders to its characters or its audience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2005

Eleonore Faucher, first-time director (and co-writer) of the French charmer Sequins, is well aware of Neymark's allure and sees to it that the young woman is seldom out of the frame.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2005

In this decorous trifle from France, the director lonore Faucher builds her story with studied deliberation and piece by precious piece.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2005

Faucher's filmmaking is exquisite, Naymark's acting is luminous, and superb use of music lends a crowning touch.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 26, 2005

Sequins hinges on its performances and newcomer Naymark is a marvel of quiet intelligence, endowing Claire with a complex mix of virginal purity and hormonal rage.

| May 24, 2005

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 21, 2005

At the film's heart is an acutely observed and sensitively played relationship between two people very much in need of one another.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2005

Brodeuses shows us rookie director Faucher's complete control over her material. A small gem of a film high on atmosphere and with two pitch-perfect performances.

| May 8, 2005

Cinematography and art decoration trump plot and character development.

Full Review | May 1, 2005