Marguerite & Julien
Sundance Selects | Release Date: February 26, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMar 3, 2016
The operatic tragedy of Marguerite and Julien's plight proves an effectively creepy dramatic engine. Read full review
60
Village VoiceSerena DonadoniFeb 23, 2016
The widescreen intimacy of small moments — the flush of a rain-soaked cheek — humanizes Donzelli's grand folly and the couple who challenge the parameters of morality. Read full review
58
HitfixGregory EllwoodMay 22, 2015
Demoustier is charismatic enough to almost help Donzelli pull it off, but Elkaïm is so stiff as Julien you never understand why Marguerite is willing to risk her life in the first place. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyFeb 24, 2016
It’s somehow both mannered and style-less, fantastical and under-imagined—perversely watchable, in other words. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijMay 23, 2015
Ambitiously mounted but wildly uneven. Read full review
40
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 23, 2015
As fate closes in on the lovers, the silliness of their own behaviour and Marguerite & Julien in general prevents any pathos from entering the scene. The taboo of incest never troubles as one never truly believe that they are brother and sister - or in love - or anything else. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaFeb 26, 2016
Rather than presenting something akin to the heady youthful cravings of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as contemporary versions of Romeo and Juliet, the equally tragic Marguerite & Julien often feels more like a version of Richie and Margot in Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums” crossed with the pre-teen runaways from “Moonrise Kingdom,” but minus the humor and insight. Read full review
30
VarietyJay WeissbergMay 23, 2015
The film is a painfully silly, laughably naive Romance with a capital “R.” Read full review
25
Slant MagazineClayton DillardFeb 22, 2016
It finds its filmmaker completely lost between impulses to pay homage, play it safe, or offer something—anything—new. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 23, 2015
This buttock-clenchingly embarrassing movie from director Valérie Donzelli is a pre-Revolutionary period drama from the quality end of the sugary French market – theatrically tricked out with one or two annoying and clumsy Brechtian touches of stylised self-aware modernity. Read full review
10
The New York TimesGlenn KennyFeb 26, 2016
The excruciating experience of Marguerite & Julien need only be endured by viewers with an obsessive interest in the least constructive aesthetic currents in contemporary French cinema. Read full review
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