Lover for a Day
MUBI | Release Date: January 12, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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88
Slant MagazineCarson Lund
The film is yet another of Phillippe Garrel's densely anecdotal studies of romantic fidelity. Read full review
83
The Film StageEd FranklMay 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
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJan 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
80
EmpireSimon CrookJan 16, 2018
Beneath Garrel’s unassuming, subdued style lies a deceptively powerful study of fidelity, lensed in stark, moody monochrome and featuring a compelling screen debut from Louise Chevillotte. Read full review
80
Screen DailyLisa NesselsonMay 26, 2017
There are wonderful, quintessentially French flourishes scattered throughout. Read full review
80
VarietyPamela PianezzaMay 26, 2017
The film benefits from the collective contributions of four screenwriters...whose collective insights result in a beautiful complexity. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJan 9, 2018
If Garrel’s recent films (which also include In The Shadow Of Women and Frontier Of Dawn) play like variations on a theme, this one at least varies more than usual. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla DargisJan 11, 2018
There are times when the characters — and their director — surprise and genuinely delight. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijMay 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
67
IndieWireBen CrollMay 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
63
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaJan 12, 2018
The plot alone of this elegantly shot black-and-white import shares the Woodman’s affection for variations on lusty middle-age man who beds — and tutors — an adoring decades-younger nubile conquest. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJan 20, 2018
This brief, winsome feature is a typically stylish, if ephemeral piece of work in the classic New Wave manner – almost a time capsule. Read full review
60
Total FilmSimon KinnearJan 18, 2018
With its monochrome stylings and a plot laced with ennui, it might be the most French film ever made, but there’s no denying Garrel’s craft. Read full review
50
Village VoiceApril WolfeJan 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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