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The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

Les beaux jours d'Aranjuez (The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez)

2016

Wim Wenders

Reda Kateb, Sophie Semin, Nick Cave, Peter Handke, Jens Harzer

4.5

112

Drama A beautiful summer day. A garden. A terrace. A woman and a man sit at a table beneath the trees, with a soft summer wind. In the distance, in the vast plain, the silhouette of Paris. A conversation begins: questions and answers between the woman and the man. It deals with sexual experiences, childhood, memories, the essence of summer and the difference between men and women. It illustrates both, feminine perspective and masculine ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite the skillful actors, camerawork and offbeat musical choices, the result is rarefied art cinema that will have as much trouble finding an audience as the two characters do finding some equilibrium in their outlooks"	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A dully verbose 3D talkfest that says very little of substance (...) Wenders’ first French-language film doesn’t make much of a case for the material as cinema, or even as a particularly good play"	NEG
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"Auteur 3-D is not a new phenomenom. But Wim Wenders’ new film (...) pushes the genre into a whole new territory of pretentious intellectual sterility"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A supercilious, self-conscious two-hander about life and love is saved from insufferable dullness by some Nick Cave songs and one joke (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG

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