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Reinventing Marvin

Marvin ou la belle education

2017

Anne Fontaine

Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Macaigne ...

6.4

168

Drama The story revolves around Martin Clément, born Marvin Bijou, who ran away from his hometown and his family. He retells his story through a stage play that proves to be a smash hit. But at what price?

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Uneven but affecting (...) Anne Fontaine’s unsteady, overlong but rewardingly compassionate character study documents the painful coming of age that builds to cathartic creative process."	NEU
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Touching if overwrought (...) It’s all a bit overlong and over-the-top, although the lead turn from rising star Finnegan Oldfield (...) is almost enough to make it work."	NEU
United Kingdom	Lisa Nesselson Screendaily	"An implausibly true-life story (...) A cascade of clichés made palatable and cumulatively touching by a very fine cast (...) Nothing is strictly chronological but the thoughtfully crafted puzzle pieces fall into place"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This odd movie from Anne Fontaine is messily structured, self-conscious and preposterous, buried within its own inelegant framing device (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"Anne Fontaine skilfully recounts the moving journey and quest for identity of a young boy (...) The actors deliver exceptional performances"	POS
United States	Diego Semerene Slant	"The simplicity and linearity of Louis’s prose is lost (...) Though there’s great visual pleasure in Fontaine’s mishandling of the material, it all feels disrespectful to the quietness of Louis’s story"	NEU

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