Le Week-End
Music Box Films | Release Date: March 14, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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23
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6
Negative:
0
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60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJun 20, 2014
Michell's is a film with somewhere to go -- and that journey is one well worth taking. Read full review
60
The DissolveMike D'AngeloMar 11, 2014
Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy And Rosie Get Laid) sometimes overdoes the emotional-seesaw routine... But director Roger Michell (who’s previously worked with Kureishi on The Mother, Venus, and the miniseries The Buddha Of Suburbia) maintains a slightly jagged rhythm that proves disarming, and he has two magnificent collaborators in Broadbent and Duncan. Read full review
60
EmpireDan JolinOct 7, 2013
Writer / director team Kureishi and Michell add to their partnership with an insightful look at life-long commitment. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergMar 12, 2014
The end of Le Week-End reveals it to be the thoroughly ordinary melodrama a description suggests — a portrait of former ’60s fire-starters who are perfectly happy to settle for embers. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 13, 2014
The main — and for my money only — attraction in Le Week-End, which was directed by Roger Michell, is the marvelous Scottish actress Lindsay Duncan. She is witty, fiercely intelligent and intensely sexy in the role of Meg, a woman stuck in a failing marriage. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMar 13, 2014
Le Week-End is a sour and misanthropic film masquerading as an honest and sensitive romance. A painful and unremittingly bleak look at a difficult marriage, it wants us to sit through a range of domestic horrors without offering much of anything as a reward. Read full review
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