An excellent cast goes far to redeem >Alice and Martin.

Techine keeps a tight rein on his actors' dramatics.

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Binoche’s character is sketchily drawn. Although she gives an admirable, unshowy performance, her role is underwritten, with the script frequently using her as the engine that propels the plot.

The movie is long, but doesn't feel that way, and despite a dearth of interesting visuals after the first 20 minutes, it makes for a welcome change of pace from Hollywood

Its mystery resonates long after the film ends.

Falls just shy of greatness.

Director André Téchiné here eschews that French lightness and opts instead for what is apparently supposed to pass for psychological profundity.

This long-winded, uninteresting, uninvolving and tedious French pic is another example of a filmmaker (Andre Techine) who's too involved with one of his cast members

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