Conte d'automne 1998

Critics score:
94 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Though you wouldn't know it from Hollywood's kids 'r us obsessions, directors actually can improve as they advance in age. Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: The film is delightfully unpredictable, warm, nuanced. It's civilized entertainment. Read more

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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: If a part of me has resisted and sometimes even resented his mastery, this undoubtedly can be traced to a problem with realism that his work as a whole throws into relief. To put it crudely, why reproduce the real world when we have the thing itself? Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: There's a form of poetic justice in all this, and it gives the film, otherwise straitlaced, its jagged wit: Women on the lookout for love may be fools, but they make sure to turn the men who romance them into even bigger ones. Read more

New York Times: As sublimely warming an experience as the autumn sun that shines benevolently on the vineyard owned by the film's central character, Magali. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's a solidly entertaining effort -- the kind of movie that can be enjoyed by anyone who appreciates discerning comedy. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The latest in a long, rich series of films by the perceptive French director, who tells stories about people we'd like to know, or be. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Eric Rohmer is the KFC of international cinema. The 79-year- old director has been doing just one thing for decades, but he does it right. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: The he-said, she-said shenanigans suggest that high school may be eternal but autumn has its wisdom. In the last scene, the 78-year-old filmmaker brings his favorite conspirator back for a last dance -- it's a vintage performance that invites applause. Read more