What Suzanne Lindon achieves in Spring Blossom is truly surprising, and her voice is clear and heartfelt. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 7, 2022

It’s a far cry from conventional storytelling which is pretty impressive coming from a filmmaker just beginning what could be a wonderful career in cinema.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

The mere fact that a voice as young as that of the director Suzanne Lindon makes its way into the current vast audiovisual panorama is something to celebrate. [Full review in Spanish]

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

The ways in which writer/director Lindon reveals 16 year old character Suzanne's joy and growing attachment to Raphaël, and all he stands for, are inventive and sweet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2021

It's a shame that Spring Blossom does feel under-realized on the whole, but should leave [viewers] curious to discover where this fledgling filmmaker's career is heading.

| Jun 6, 2021

I appreciated how much it takes her experience, her feelings, and her agency without judgment or handwringing.

| Jun 3, 2021

It just feels so authentic and the lives feel so lived-in. It's a really impressive effort.

| Jun 3, 2021

Suzanne Lindon has created an exceptional, insightful film.

| May 27, 2021

Such a confident and self-assured debut would be remarkable for a filmmaker of any age, as "Spring Blossom" is a finely wrought, sensitively felt and artistically bold work.

| May 24, 2021

If you can get past the ickiness of watching a way-too-young girl (legally) date a way-older-man, then there's much to enjoy here. Lindon certainly has big things in store for her.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 23, 2021

"She and cinematographer Jérémie Attard make sure the visuals are crisp and colorful, creating perhaps the sunniest, most sensible movie about an inappropriate relationship I've ever seen."

| May 21, 2021

It's a slim story but it's told effectively.

| May 20, 2021

Lindon's... work occasionally feels like a pastiche. At the same time, she rejects the trope of the angsty teenager, capturing adolescent alienation with buoyancy and subtle whimsy.

| May 20, 2021

In creating material so close to her lived experience, Lindon is able to avoid the common clichés of teenage stories.

| Original Score: B- | May 19, 2021

[Director and star Suzanne Lindon] wrote the screenplay when she was just 15, and her authentic perspective shines through this tale of teenage romantic obsession.

| May 18, 2021

Throughout her directorial debut, Suzanne Lindon paints a concise and truthful portrait of her protagonist's feelings of estrangement.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 17, 2021

Captures the exhilaration of young love.

| Original Score: B+ | May 16, 2021

Spring Blossom shows potential, especially in Lindon's acting and directing, making me look forward to her future work, but the script here falls flat.

| May 5, 2021

Suzanne Lindon, the movie's 21-year-old writer-director (who plays the girl), gives us a slightly precious drama, but Lindon's teenager is quite endearing in her mix of gaucheness and maturity, and the film taps deeply into her feelings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2021

Spring Blossom adds little to the well-worn genres of forbidden love and coming-of-age drama. But it is told with a refreshing confidence by first-time director, writer and actress Suzanne Lindon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2021