Both Isa and Marie have bad haircuts, dressed in well-worn clothing that probably just barely keeps them warm. There's beauty in those touches of reality, too...

| Dec 9, 2021

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Two unforgettable characters are revealed, and the truth resonates powerfully through their stories.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 15, 2005

Allows the viewer to not only see, but experience the pain of these characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 13, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 3, 2002

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Zonca's lyrical cinema verite style magnifies the small tensions and flare-ups that can blow apart a friendship in the blink of an eye.

| Mar 4, 2002

The dreamlife of Angels (La Vie rve des anges) is a story of capitalistic and sexual exploitation, rage, rebellion, and the search for meaning in everyday things.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 7, 2001

Frank, intimate, touching, with an emotional immediacy that is killing.

| Feb 14, 2001

[Bouchez and Regnier have] fleshed out portraits of a depth rarely seen on screen.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It mopes around most of the time with not much to say.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Heralds a humanist cinema that neither shortchanges our minds nor cheapens what's in our hearts.

| Jan 1, 2000

It's so graceful and intelligent and complicated in its depiction of human interaction that it takes the notion of a remarkably assured directorial debut to a new level.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Zonca shows an extraordinary ability to get into the female psyche.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Not overly bad, just not a lot going on in this sleepy melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

An engrossing, occasionally revelatory experience.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

While that's not enough to make me go crazy over this one (like some people), it is enough for me to genuflect quite a bit in awe of good characters and good details done.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2000