Lover for a Day

Name: Lover for a Day
Genre: Drama
Released: January 12, 2018
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Eric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Félix Kysyl, Justine Bachelet, Louise Chevillotte

2018

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MUBI | Release Date: January 12, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Eric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Félix Kysyl, Justine Bachelet, Louise Chevillotte, Marie Sergeant, Michel Charrel, Nicolas Bridet, Paul Toucang, Raphaël Naasz

Summary: After a devastating breakup, the only place twenty-three-year old Jeanne (Esther Garrel) has to stay in Paris is the small flat of her father, Giles (Eric Caravaca). But when Jeanne arrives, she finds that her father’s new girlfriend has moved in too: Arianne (Louise Chevillotte), a young woman her own age. Each is looking for their ownAfter a devastating breakup, the only place twenty-three-year old Jeanne (Esther Garrel) has to stay in Paris is the small flat of her father, Giles (Eric Caravaca). But when Jeanne arrives, she finds that her father’s new girlfriend has moved in too: Arianne (Louise Chevillotte), a young woman her own age. Each is looking for their own kind of love in a city filled with possibilities. [MUBI]… Expand

Director: Philippe Garrel

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 76 min

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Carson Lund

The film is yet another of Phillippe Garrel's densely anecdotal studies of romantic fidelity. Read full review

The Film Stage Ed Frankl

May 25, 2017

Garrel has the touch of a wiser man not taking judgment on his characters’ youthful foibles, where setbacks are to be embraced and learned from rather than experiences discarded from memory. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jan 25, 2018

Lover for a Day, which completes a thematic trilogy of sorts with Garrel's "Jealousy" (2014) and "In the Shadow of Women" (2016), is one of his more enchanting specimens. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

May 26, 2017

The screenplay...is very good in its many observational scenes, which here are more straightforward and less laced with irony and dark humor than in Women. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jan 11, 2018

There are times when the characters — and their director — surprise and genuinely delight. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Croll

May 26, 2017

The always-understated director never mines the domestic situation for excessive melodrama, instead opting to step back and wryly examine the three leads’ contradictory impulses. Read full review

April Wolfe

Jan 11, 2018

The scenario almost seems an apologia for the film’s own subject matter, crafted with the awareness that audiences have outgrown the May-December trope. Read full review

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