Fresh
This droll symphony of comic disenchantment is as perfectly balanced and executed as the timepiece of your dreams.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Overview
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Director and cast
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88%
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Fresh
An affectionate glimpse at humankind.
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
A wonderfully rich and intelligent exploration of family dynamics.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
Klapisch's mobile adaptation of the work to the screen is very intelligently carried out in terms of time as well as space.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The film begins on a humorous note and goes on to find some universal truths in its family tensions.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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