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The New Girlfriend

Une nouvelle amie (The New Girlfriend)

2014

François Ozon

Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz, Isild Le Besco ...

6.0

2,257

Drama. Comedy When her best friend Lea dies, Claire falls into a deep depression. However, after making a surprising discovery about her late friend’s husband, she’s given a new lease on life.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Anais Demoustier and Romain Duris give beautifully controlled performances in Francois Ozon's delectably entertaining new film."	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A delectable riff on transformation, desire and sexuality that blends the heightened reality of melodrama with mischievous humor and an understated strain of Hitchcockian suspense."	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Fainaru Screendaily	"Ozon handles it all with his usual aplomb, in his hands all these characters seem practically normal, and if there is a touch of sarcasm in his look, no one will complain."	POS
United States	Christopher Schobert IndieWire	"One of Ozon’s weakest efforts to date (...) As the story becomes increasingly ridiculous, Ozon’s hold on the material becomes looser and looser"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[Ozon] makes everything old feel new and fresh (...) At heart, it is an elevated French farce, a much hipper, more relaxed and sophisticated update of 'La Cage aux Folles'."	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"The real problem is that Ozon can’t quite decide whether he’s making the crowd-pleasing tale of a cross-dresser’s empowerment or the thornier, more compelling tale of a woman who tries to recreate her dead best friend"	NEU

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