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La belle époque

2019

Nicolas Bedos

Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Fanny Ardant ...

6.7

1,214

Comedy. Drama. Romance Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This is accomplished commercial filmmaking of a type rarely seen these days, much less applied to this kind of old-fashioned but sharp-minded material."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"As elaborately high-concept as any American studio comedy (...) Where so many high-concept romantic comedies squander their one big idea, 'La Belle Époque' leverages its own"	POS
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"A sweet, inventive Richard Curtis-style romantic-comedy crowdpleaser that deftly balances hearty laughs and heartwarming emotion	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A madly overegged, over-sugared pudding of a film (...) It’s comedy-drama that is not funny enough to count as a comedy and not plausible enough to count as a drama (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Sheena Scott Forbes	"A very charming French movie that plunges its audience into a nostalgia of an imagined 1970s (...) A witty and very funny romantic comedy with a very great set of actors"	POS
	Bénédicte Prot Cineuropa	"[It is] as delicious as it is ingenious (...) The intelligent and tight screenplay is cloaked with levity to conceal an amalgam of powerful, universal themes"	POS
Ireland	Paddy Kehoe RTÉ	"'La Belle Époque' is a dazzling tour de force for everyone who likes magnificent escapism (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Sarah Cullen Film Ireland	"[It] has curiously little to say about the dangers of surveillance in the modern era. To give the film some light praise, 'La Belle Époque' sets out to be provocative"	NEU
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Bedos keeps enough plates spinning to distract even the most unforgiving observer. Ardant is particularly strong in a film that eventually gains real emotional traction (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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