The individual plot lines fit together seamlessly and the cast is easy on the eye, but this melancholy trawl through the quagmire of modern relationships is not outstanding.
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03/03/08
Late August, Early September (1998)
81 %
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Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 17
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Gabriel, an aspiring novelist, must reevaluate his personal life when his friend Adrien becomes suddenly ill. With his career in dire straits and his relationships with two women floundering, Gabriel must take stock of his life and... [More]
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Virginie Ledoyen, François Cluzet, Jeanne Balibar
Director: Olivier Assayas
Reviews for Late August, Early September
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Top Critic
It's a bit like a Woody Allen film without the kvetching or the wisecracks, but younger and more vital.
06/24/06
Top Critic
Denis Lenoir's camera is almost always on the move, shoulder-borne, shuddering or looking for blurred close-up detail to put to use in the film's transitional sequences.
03/05/02
Assayas's sense of how relationships evolve between people over time is conveyed with a rich and vivid novelistic density.
03/03/08
Assayas avoids easy resolutions, and Ali Farka Toure's score reminds us that each year brings with it a possibility that one will change the cycle.
03/03/08
A kaleidoscopic but engrossing study of the shifting sands of friendship among a group of Parisians.
03/03/08
Top Critic The characters are all properly engaging and interesting, but the story feels the same as many others I've seen.
05/20/06
Assayas puts a shiny gloss on those who choose to live loose lives...
09/08/02
The cast is full of talented French actors -- Virginie Ledoyen, Francois Cluzet, Mathieu Amalric, Jeanne Balibar -- who play people with flaws and fears and who eventually reach a tender understanding.
04/03/02
Reveals the terrible fragility of male friendship and the ways in which it often disappoints those who invest it with burdens it cannot bear.
03/13/02
It is, in many ways, a modest film. But a director who offers glimpses of life that are recognizable in both detail and texture isn't so common that we can afford to overlook what he has achieved here.
01/01/00
Although we cannot take our eyes off Ms. Balibar, whose performance is remarkable in its understated range of emotion, she is the only character with whom we can connect.
01/01/00
This is a slow, talky movie that seems to drift aimlessly without finding an involving storyline.
01/01/00
Assayas creates among the most well-realized characters in current cinema.
01/01/00
If Assayas doesn't always transport his film's events beyond the all too commonplace, his understatement can also yield moments of quiet simplicity.
01/01/00
Top Critic The results may not be completely original or thought-provoking, but on whole, the movie is refreshingly honest and heartfelt.
01/01/00
The film doesn't leave the audience with a moral. It just leaves a sense of having been in the stimulating company of passionate people.
01/01/00
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