Les amants réguliers 2005

Noel Murray, AV Club: Regular Lovers isn't a folly-of-youth story that aches with emotion, like Au Revoir, Les Enfants or The Squid And The Whale. It's drier, and simpler. You are there. Iris out. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Not much happens, but the director keeps our attention nevertheless. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: This tender portrait of late-1960s French youth stars Louis Garrel as Francois, a 20-year-old Parisian struggling through the fires of revolutionary promise and its smoldering remains. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Read more

Ben Walters, Time Out: It's clearly an intensely personal project for the director, who was 20 himself in '68 (and shooting the riot police in 35mm) and has also cast his father Maurice and the music of his partner Nico. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Time Out: Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Garrel is not just an artless aesthete, he is unexpectedly and intensely romantic -- imagining and realizing a character who can die for love. Read more