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Les Destinées

Les Destinées sentimentales

2000

Olivier Assayas

Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Perrier ...

6.5

211

Drama. Romance Pauline is twenty-years-old when she and Jean first meet at a ball in Barbazac in the Charente. Jean, a minister married with children, has just recently resigned himself to the failure of his marriage with Nathalie. No matter the pressures of polite, Protestant society surrounding them, from this moment on, Pauline and Jean’s “emotional destinies” are linked. In the tragic aftermath of the 1914-18 war, that fatal wound which causes ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Like a good novel, 'Les Destinées' is many things: a family chronicle, a series of psychological portraits, a sumptuous re-creation of the past"	POS
United Kingdom	Jason Korsner BBC	"A film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time, and this isn't (...) It's beautifully shot, the production design is sumptuous, and the performances are exemplary (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"An epic drama that unfolds over the course of decades can duplicate the scope and the filigreed pleasure of a novel on screen. When it doesn’t work (...) The audience becomes aware that time isn’t so much passing as piling up"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It will not appeal to the impatient, but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[It] is typically intelligent, elliptical, and beautifully acted. It's also, perhaps a little surprisingly given Assayas' earlier work, a little dull and banal"	NEU
United States	David Rooney Variety	"A massive undertaking and an accomplished piece of filmmaking in a solid tradition of intelligent, meticulous literary adaptations"	POS

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