Fresh
A sweet puff of a film, My Afternoons With Margueritte is as disarming as it is absurd.
Tom Long, Detroit News
My Afternoons with Margueritte
2010 · 1h 22m · NOT RATED
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Jean Becker
Overview
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Director and cast
- Jean Becker Director
- Gérard Depardieu as Germain
- Maurane as Francine
- Gisèle Casadesus as Margueritte
- Jean-François Stévenin as Jojo
- Patrick Bouchitey as Landremont
- François-Xavier Demaison as Gardini
- Claire Maurier as La mère
- Sophie Guillemin as Annette
- Anne Le Guernec as La mère jeune
- Mélanie Bernier as Stéphanie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
84%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[Depardieu] is as emblematic of his country as Tom Hanks is of ours, and "My Afternoons With Margueritte" is his "Forrest Gump." Only better.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
The happy ending lays it on too thick, but what the hell: In for a dime, in for a dollar.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A predictable, undernourished love story.
Adam Bernstein, Washington Post
Fresh
It's a lovely movie.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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