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You Can Live Forever

2022

Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts

Anwen O'Driscoll, Jennifer Laporte, Liane Balaban, Antoine Yared ...

6.3

107

Drama When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.

	Author	Review
United States	Fran Hoepfner The Wrap	"It's a promising feature with an original focus, handled with romantic dexterity and thoughtful wisdom"	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"This compassionate story of puppy love shows more understanding towards the community (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jude Dry IndieWire	"Earnest Jehovah’s witness lesbian drama has few surprises"	NEU
United States	Isaac Feldberg rogerebert.com	"A film that gracefully depicts the love between its young characters as both real and revelatory (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"For all its aches and pains, the heart of 'You Can Live Forever' doesn’t so much beat as skip, haltingly and disconcertingly, as it tries to keep its own lifeblood pumping"	NEG
United States	Fran Hoepfner The Wrap	"It’s a promising feature with an original focus, handled with romantic dexterity and thoughtful wisdom"	POS
United States	Elisabeth Vincentelli The New York Times	"[It] sticks to a fairly common coming-of-age trajectory. There is a sense of a missed opportunity in that we see the action through the eyes of Jaime,"	NEU
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"Even if the viewer can identify early on that things aren't going to go smoothly for these young women, that doesn't make the film any less interesting or engaging"	POS
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"There's a lot of rigidity to the plotting and style of 'You Can Live Forever', which often comes across as flat and programmatic. But there are also times when that stiffness works to the movie's advantage"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A sympathetic, fervent drama (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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