3 Hearts
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: March 13, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Daily NewsGraham FullerMar 12, 2015
Charged by dynamite performances and Bruni Coulais’s ominous score, this romantic tragedy is more gripping than most thrillers. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianJeff BakerMar 26, 2015
The writer-director has done a lot of opera, onstage and on film, and he sure is fond of the dramatic gesture. His leading man, Poelvoorde, is not at first glance the type of guy who'd captivate two such stunning women, but this is France, and his desire and anguish is real. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 26, 2015
Most of life is melodramatic — emotional, involving and lacking the dignity of straight drama. 3 Hearts is life as felt from the inside. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChris CabinMar 12, 2015
Throughout, Benoît Jacquot never loses sight of the primordial compulsions that drive feelings and expressions of great love and beauty. Read full review
75
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthMar 10, 2015
For those willing to invest in the lives of these characters, even if the framework around them directly and without apology guides them toward inevitable tragedy, they will experience a drama of deep, genuine feeling. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 4, 2015
What's interesting is how Jacquot treats the material. It is, by any measure, a romantic drama. But he uses the score, by Bruno Coulais, as if the film were something else altogether. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 16, 2015
This is a deceptively weird movie. There’s always been an immediacy to Jacquot’s visual style; he likes to follow his characters closely, and he gets performances that are energetic but quiet. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijMar 10, 2015
It helps immeasurably that Gainsbourg, as an actress, is as intense as her presence feels evanescent, always seemingly onto the next moment already, leaving everyone in her wake. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMarsha McCreadieMar 10, 2015
The film is so unabashed in showing the place of passion in a bourgeois world, how a missed connection can screw up a life forever, that plot implausibilities are forgiven. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniApr 10, 2015
It leaves behind a nagging feeling, a suggestion there's more to the story than its story. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 10, 2015
The entire scenario, contrived to within an inch of its life, takes Poelvoorde’s appeal for granted. Marc’s anxiety becomes our own once he realizes what he’s done, though Jacquot makes it much more compelling to watch his characters fall in love than it is to see them writhe and twist amid its complications. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKiva ReardonMar 12, 2015
While the controlling deities might have found some amusement in this narrative, in Jacquot’s hands the tale is more bland than tragic. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayApr 9, 2015
The gently perfumed air of impending doom suffuses 3 Hearts, a tasteful, mildly intriguing romantic drama from writer-director Benoît Jacquot. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenMar 20, 2015
The overwrought plot mechanics are exasperating, but the lead actresses' exquisitely modulated performances get under the skin. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireMar 13, 2015
A curious, ultimately unsatisfying romantic comedy about two sisters in love with the same man. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisApr 1, 2015
The premise is ripe for potent melodrama, but director Jacquot (who gets co-screenwriting credit) ultimately doesn’t finesse the situation. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMar 12, 2015
The screenplay relies on so many mechanical contrivances to make the story gripping that you can hear the rusty machinery clanking. Read full review
40
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMar 10, 2015
That the drama should hinge on a series of bizarre novelistic coincidences and the irrational dopiness of the characters with whom we're supposed to empathise drains the film of realism and sends us into Mills & Boon territory. Read full review
40
The DissolveMike D'AngeloMar 10, 2015
Suspense can be riveting, but 3 Hearts really needed to deploy its bomb much earlier. When it does goes off, it’s a dud. Read full review
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