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Café de Flore

Healing a broken heart isn't easy. Sometimes it takes a lifetime...or two.

2011 · 2h 1m Drama, Romance
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée

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Overview

Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful DJ in present day Montreal who seems to have it all: a thriving career, two beautiful daughters, partner Rose, with whom he is passionately in love. However, nothing is perfect and Antoine’s ex-wife Carole remains devastated by their recent separation.

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63%
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Rotten

A forgettable film.

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Rotten

It's terribly long and repetitive for so delicately dreamy a diptych, and at times the modern-day story feels like little more than a drawn-out apologia for the wandering male gaze.

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

Goes from intriguing to irritating.

Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten

Feels less like a movie than like a cinematic jigsaw puzzle whose agitation undermines the very continuity it wants to portray.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten

Decade-hopping metaphysical romance descends into overwrought histrionics.

Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter

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