Dosch gives a brave performance and there’s an excellent soundtrack...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 23, 2022

"Simple Passion" lets the bodies do the talking, and after a while, they run out of things to say.

| Jan 28, 2022

Dosch is remarkable. This is my first time seeing the French-Swiss actress, and now I want to go back now and catch up with everything she's done.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2022

While Dosch's work is ever-changing but always accessible, Polunin never comes close to matching her acting ability, which ultimately leaves Simple Passion lacking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 21, 2022

While keeping a stalwart female perspective, "Simple Passion" follows an arc so standard it could be called banal.

| Jan 20, 2022

The film makes no attempt to embody the themes that form the core of Annie Ernaux's story in its aesthetics.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 18, 2022

There are painful echoes of Fifty Shades of Grey in the palpable lack of chemistry between Dosch and Polunin, and in the airless plotting about a woman at the mercy of her lover's timetable and her fiery passions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 6, 2021

Laetitia Dosch is subtle and exquisite as a divorced Parisian lost in infatuation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2021

Although the pleasures of the flesh are shown with enough erotic power to convince us of Hélène's addiction to them, the anonymity of the lead characters stops the film from truly gripping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2021

The film's about a chapter we prefer to get out of the way in adolescence; revisited as this kind of helpless mid-life crisis, it's exquisite torture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2021

It is a pity that Polunin could not have been a little relaxed in the role: but, as I say, his opaque hauteur is rather the point. And Dosch is great.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2021

An imperfect but glassily compelling study of obsessive, finally debilitating desire that honors its source with an unblinking female gaze.

| Sep 25, 2020

A compelling, formally adventurous drama highlighting a superb performance by Laetitia Dosch.

| Sep 21, 2020