The house by the sea is the most skeptical and taciturn work of the director who always showed the greatest social optimism in contemporary French cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 13, 2019

It's a bit hodgepodge, but the three actors are poignantly convincing together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2019

Perhaps something was lost in translation here, and the original French dialogue makes more sense or is less irritatingly trite. But even if that is the case, lazy story work and a uniformly bad cast still sink The House by the Sea.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 18, 2019

It's beautifully done. Perfectly balanced. Always compassionate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2019

So the film throws up a tangle of interesting ideas. It gradually becomes more nuanced than it at first appears as its characters slowly become more rounded and sympathetic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2019

It's well-meaning and the naturalistic performances are persuasive. But there's a certain rheumatic stiffness to the writing, which treads rather heavily as it negotiates themes that would benefit from a lighter step.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 13, 2019

Children and parents, love and death, memories, class and values and this is the little world and world at large. Go and watch this film if you like your films slow, melodic and thoughtful!

| Jan 11, 2019

A languorous look at family and modernity that only just manages to give each their due.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2019

However well-intentioned and well-crafted, there is something self-regarding and stagey in its narrative contrivances.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2019

Anyone who enjoys classic French art house drama will find plenty to relish here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2019

Robert Guediguian avoids melodrama, allowing space for actors to create realistically messy characters who are easy to identify with.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 10, 2019

An immensely intelligent and absorbing drama.

| Jan 9, 2019

Challenging the truism that you can never go home, this doesn't entirely integrate its political subtext. But the storylines are involving, the setting is picturesque and the performances are impeccable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2019

A surprising tribute to the work of Yasujiro Ozu that is somewhat diminished by its noble sub plot. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 7, 2019

Working with many of his regular actors, Guédiguian creates an engaging if mournful film filled with heartfelt moments but also prone to stumble in some crassly handled key flashbacks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2019

[Director Robert] Guédiguian's sensitivity... makes history envelop us with its framework of past and present. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 6, 2018

What the film makes clear is that to achieve the future we want, we must learn to master the past, something that the Russian writer Anton Chekhov had already developed in some of his dramas. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 10, 2018

The story ends when the protagonists are finally able to look to the future without qualms, despite their past and despite, also, themselves. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2018

As exciting as it is bitter... [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 10, 2018

Robert Guédiguian shows an unusual poetic vigor. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2018