Les temps qui changent 2004

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: If Changing Times' last shots don't touch you, your heart may be frozen. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Volatile and sometimes daring performances by Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, and Lubna Azabal (as twins) contribute to the highly charged and novelistic experience. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: There's something uniquely pleasurable about watching a director in total command of his craft, even when that craft is in service of a scattershot melodrama with pale intimations of social relevance. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: ... another gorgeous and immensely satisfying reminder that there are few better directors than Techine when it comes to capturing the vagaries of the heart. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Despite its weaknesses, Changing Times (Les Temps Qui Changent in French) is always watchable and even poignant from time to time. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: ... more drily sociological than dramatic. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: This willfully slippery movie seems to make the case both for mixing it up and sticking to your own kind. Which is all of a piece with the sensibility of this wonderfully ambiguous filmmaker, a visionary of our changing times. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: [Director Andre] Techine always locates a steadfast emotional element in the worlds he creates, a defiant human construct against unstoppable change. In Changing Times, it is love, in unfamiliar forms. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Changing Times offers a cool and refreshing aperitif at the end of a warm Bastille Day. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The ending is both shamelessly cliched and -- for Cecile -- out of character. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Techine has a location, two stars and a situation, but he can't seem to parlay that into a story, and a story would help, not only in terms of audience pleasure (not something to be dismissed) but also in terms of focusing the film's intention. Read more

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Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: French director Andre Techine sketches a family with the usual flaws, but takes the unusual step of not fixing them. Read more

Lisa Nesselson, Variety: This moody, more-bitter-than-sweet ode to anxiety is intense adult fare reinforced by effective no frills lensing. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: We, in any case, are as unconvinced by his lovelorn saga as Deneuve's skeptical pragmatist -- that is, until a romance paperback deus ex machina shoots the film's lifelike credibility out of the water. Read more