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The Best Years of a Life

Les plus belles années d'une vie

2019

Claude Lelouch

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée, Souad Amidou, Antoine Sire ...

6.0

566

Romance. Drama A follow-up film to “A Man and A Woman,” the 1966 romantic classic.

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"There is bittersweet humor and poignant insight here, plus a fine cast including Monica Bellucci in a brief cameo."
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Trintignant and Aimée bring the film all the bittersweet gravitas they can manage, elevating the featherweight drama with a palpable sense of longing and a shared, rueful acknowledgement of mortality"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] delivers a melancholic salute to the original movie. However, Lelouch’s obsession with his story’s legacy means that the movie often defaults to a saccharine nostalgia trip."
		Allan Hunter Screendaily	"A typically sentimental assertion from inveterate romantic Claude Lelouch (...) [He] has earned the right to this act of indulgence"
		Jan Lumholdt Cineuropa	"Slight as it undoubtedly may be, it simultaneously feels like exactly the film Lelouch wanted to make, honestly and shamelessly. "

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