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Movie Overview
Cast
Louis Garrel
Ludivine Sagnier
Chiara Mastroianni
Director
Christophe Honoré
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Love Songs (2008)
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OFCS Rating: 55% Rotten
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"Are the characters completely believable? No. Are the feelings the characters talk and sing about pinpointed with a precision that seems to have become a Honoré trademark? Very much so."
european-films.net
Boyd van Hoeij
5/10
"I don't know that achieving this kind of sexual freedom would be worth having to live around all these exhaustingly precocious people."
AfterElton.com
Brian Juergens
3/5
"a light and playful story about sex and love but doesn't really say anything specific about either one"
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
2/4
"There's little doubt that
Love Songs
' reliance on mind-bogglingly ineffective musical numbers inevitably triggers its downfall..."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
3/4
"The love affairs of the film's characters aren't merely expressions of fluid sexual desire but an acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of human life."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
B-
"If cinema is a glass of water, Honore and Garrel are two tablets of Alka Seltzer. Unfortunately their carbonating effects wear off after about 45 minutes and the glass of water that is
Love Songs
goes tepid again."
Cinepinion
Henry Stewart
"Oh, what a sweet, sad, sexy movie!"
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
4/5
"Probably not to everyone's taste ... but the lyrical filmmaking beautifully captures the elusive complexity of love."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
B-
"...an interesting exercise by writer/director Christophe Honore but it plays too unevenly."
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
B+
"[Christophe] Honore drops the brightness and joy of the form into the chilly, gray winter of Paris to explore love and loss and intimacy."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
"Click here to see review"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
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