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Farewell to the Night

L'Adieu à la nuit

2019

André Téchiné

Catherine Deneuve, Kacey Mottet Klein, Oulaya Amamra, Kamel Labroudi ...

5.8

73

Drama Muriel farms horses and owns an almond plantation. When her grandson comes to visit her for one last time before he leaves for Canada. She learns that he has dark secrets.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Oddly ineffectual considering the explosive subject matter (...) There's a nagging lack of fluidity in the scene-to-scene progression (...) All this generates surprisingly little feeling"	NEG
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"A well-meaning but awkward response to a theme that is inescapably vital at the moment (...) Deneuve is effortlessly compelling (...) [The script] feels laborious and schematic"	NEU
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"There’s very little originality in this story (...) The film stumbles into the usual banal pitfalls and features some truly lamentable scenes"	NEG
	Bénédicte Prot Cineuropa	"Téchiné's film, which leaves us in as much doubt about the past as it does about future of this young couple, provides no answers and is all the more disturbing for doing so."	NEU
United States	Pat Brown Slant	"Clearly, 'Farewell to the Night's intention is to put human faces to ISIS recruits, but its representation of radicalization is still uncomfortably one-sided and one-dimensional (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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