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(1 - 13) of 13 OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh Page   1   "Patience, waiting, frustration, bad timing, lost opportunities - it takes a certain directorial boldness to highlight these as the principal themes of what is essentially a claustrophobic two-hander whose duration extends to nearly two and a half hours."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel "It may sound like silly wordplay, but Ne touchez pas la hache is nothing short of rivetting."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij "It may sound like silly wordplay, but this film is nothing short of rivetting."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij 4/5 "so completely ousts love and romance as a mere act that you expect curtains to sweep in at the end."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin "Balibar's sly mouth tightens with mean glee as she plays all the Duchesses' games, and Depardieu's brooding, battered face ceaselessly signals the General's suppressed, sexualized violence."   Slant Magazine   Dan Callahan "Jeanne Balibar is radiant in Antoinette's deception and self-deception that speak of and to all lovers, male as well as female."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 3.5/4 "The film is a piercing pas de deux that excoriates romance even as its doomed characters are consumed by it."   Slant Magazine   Fernando F. Croce C "A remote and chilly exercise, more museum piece than movie."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "How a proficient practitioner of seduction tries to ensnare a Napoleonic general in her web of coquettishness in 1820s Paris."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat C+ "Well acted and aesthetically attractive, the film remains by and large inert."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Demonstrando uma quase reverência às origens de seu projeto, Rivette cria um roteiro que retém a natureza literária da narrativa."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 7/10 "A scarred war hero and a delicately placed courtesan spar amongst the moldering walls of Restoration Paris. A graceful story of love's struggles amidst a brutal social climate of denial and despair."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 13) of 13 OFCS Rating: 67% Fresh Page   1