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Lover for a Day

L'amant d'un jour

2017

Philippe Garrel

Eric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Louise Chevillotte, Paul Toucang ...

6.6

1,707

Drama After a breakup, a 23-year-old girl goes back home and discovers that his father's girlfriend is also 23 and lives with him.

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Though not as strong as the other two titles in the trilogy (...) [it] is nonetheless a frequently fascinating minor Garrel"	POS
United States	Pamela Pianezza Variety	"An alluring and very elegantly crafted — though largely predictable — romantic dramedy"	POS
United States	Ben Croll IndieWire	"Despite those small touches and the fresh energy brought by actresses (...) This is still the same 'Love: can’t live with it, can’t live without it!' movie the director has been making and remaking for a decade"	NEU
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Garrel’s black-and-white images are unusually slack, as are the performances; the script (...) seems assembled from prefabricated pieces and remains undeveloped. The movie is methodically sexual but emotionally remote"	NEG
United States	Carson Lund Slant	"'Lover for a Day' is yet another of Phillippe Garrel’s densely anecdotal studies of romantic fidelity (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Odie Henderson rogerebert.com	"[I allowed] the film’s harsh black and white cinematography to wash over me"	POS
United Kingdom	Lisa Nesselson Screendaily	"[It] knows what it’s doing and does it well (...) There are wonderful, quintessentially French flourishes scattered throughout"	POS

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