Tu Dors Nicole
Kino Lorber | Release Date: May 29, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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100
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonApr 28, 2015
Lafleur maintains a bouncy, consistently funny tone that you'd describe as featherlight, were there not real weight grounding it all. It's a near-miraculous trick, and evidence of the immense talent on display here: he has a real talent for making comedy work visually, and as you might expect from a former editor, a sense not just for landing a joke, but for creating a unique and distinctive rhythm. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMay 29, 2015
It is both light as a feather and emotionally resonant. It is defiantly episodic and yet has a cumulative power in its storytelling. It is both airy and emotionally lived-in at the same time. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 27, 2015
Shot on gorgeous black-and-white 35 mm that only seems to enhance the melancholic drabness of the events it depicts, Tu Dors Nicole is an especially wispy, French-Canadian addition to an irresistible genre. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 29, 2015
Lafleur’s film is a quiet trifle that sneaks up on you, like a pleasant dream you might have and then gradually forget. Its very slightness is its greatest weapon. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMay 28, 2015
[A] wonderful, lighter-than-air movie. Read full review
80
The DissolveMike D'AngeloMay 28, 2015
It’s hard to build a story entirely on grace notes, but Lafleur comes close. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijApr 28, 2015
Lafleur delivers an affecting, funny and eccentric -- in the best sense of the word -- meditation on that in-between state that people in their early twenties find themselves, as they are technically old enough to participate fully in all of life’s activities but they still lack the experience to know what they really want or what’s really good for them. Read full review
80
VarietyAlissa SimonApr 28, 2015
The actors, some of whom have worked with Lafleur before, are entirely in tune with his intentions and display a beguiling chemistry. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyMay 28, 2015
The night scenes are particularly resonant, mixing humour, suspense and textured visuals. This is the kind of film dream from which you feel reluctant to wake. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineClayton DillardApr 28, 2015
Lafleur denies Nicole the angsty treatments given similar characters in films like The Graduate and Frances Ha by refusing to saturate the film with an undergirding sense of charm, where the issues being faced are merely points of spasmodic uncertainty that will erode over time. Read full review
63
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeMay 28, 2015
The wry situational humor leaves less of an impression than the near-perfect sense of the heat-drenched wistfulness of summer. Read full review
60
CineVueApr 28, 2015
The aimless, wandering of this twenty-something is a little kooky but rarely unfunny, and Côté flourishes as a woman positively drained by the prospect of having to move forward at all. Read full review
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