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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThe movie's steady attention to detail lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life. Its eye and ear for the particular and for what is left unsaid in tense conversation is unerring.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterHighly enjoyable romantic comedy.
- 80VarietyVarietyAccomplished freshman outing by Flemish TV director Christophe van Rompaey features a knockout perf from actress Barbara Sarafian ("8½ Women").
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoA pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn uncommon comedy that is fairly serious most of the time.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThere are no big-name stars. Barbara Serafian, who is excellent, has a thin, eclectic resume. She looks a little like Frances McDormand.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleUnderscores that choices in love are rarely clean and easy, and more often than not, are poignantly funny.
- 67Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerAt worst is inoffensive. But that's the point. When you're making a movie about people whose lives are torn up in this way, inoffensiveness is, well, offensive.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceWe're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu.
- 50Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThis Belgian comedy suffers from the fact that its mismatched lovers are so consistently unpleasant; it catches fire only in the scenes between the mother and the daughter.