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

| 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

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

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

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

Cinematography and art decoration trump plot and character development.

Full Review | May 1, 2005

True to its metaphysical fixation with the art of embroidery, characters often feel like strands undone from an uncompromising human tapestry.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2005