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The Broken Circle Breakdown

The Broken Circle Breakdown (Alabama Monroe)

2012

Felix Van Groeningen

Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert Van Rampelberg ...

7.2

10,614

Drama ‘The Broken Circle Breakdown’ tells the love story between Elise and Didier. She has her own tattoo shop, he plays the banjo in a band. It is love at first sight, in spite of major differences. He talks, she listens. He is a dedicated atheist, although at the same time a naïve romantic. She has a cross tattooed in her neck, even though she has both feet firmly on the ground. Their happiness is complete after their little girl Maybelle ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Invigorating musical elements and the lead actors' potent chemistry can't entirely protect this tragic relationship drama from its encroaching shortage of subtlety"	NEU
United States	Boyd van Hoeij Variety	"Sophisticated cutting brings out the story’s complex emotional undercurrents, though 'Breakdown’s' less convincingly scripted second half sputters more often than it shines."	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[A] touching love story and soggy family melodrama."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"A tough, vital, electrifying film. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Forms an eloquent treaty on the spectrum of emotions that music has the power to convey."	POS

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