Media Reviews

Australian Reviews

Evan Williams - The Australian

“ **** It’s a beautiful film…Coeurs …is among the most satisfying films of the year.”

Philippa Hawker – The Age

“****… a cinematic experience in every way, a delicate…and graceful film.”

Tom Ryan _ The Sunday Age

“ **** …alive with intelligence and compassion.”

David Stratton – At the Movies, ABC television

“ **** elegant.”

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

Premiere Glenn Kenny
Resnais employs all the tools of studio-bound moviemaking, silent-era to post-modern, in a way that is not only is consistently dazzling in a purely visual sense, but contains an empathy that lifts the picture to tragic heights even at those points at which it seems practically weightless.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
"A masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its wintry yet warm perspective is suffused with the wisdom and experience of a great filmmaker who turns 85 on June 2. "

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
"The cast is tremendous; these actors work with Resnais like a well-oiled stock company that knows every trick and can communicate almost telepathically. "

New York Magazine David Edelstein
"It's a Parisian romantic roundelay with sundry couples connecting and disconnecting, but it looks and sounds like no sex comedy ever made: It's transcendentally yummy "

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
"Resnais and Ayckbourn care primarily about observing these characters' private and public faces, who they are and who they present themselves as. To that end, they've achieved a mood of enchanting intimacy. "

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
"The grand old filmmaker frames each scene like a fine painting . And fake snow falls with happy artificiality between rueful vignettes. "

Village Voice Jim Ridley
"Resnais is now 84 years old; perhaps it takes eight decades of living to make a movie this compassionate, this confident--and this young. '