La jalousie 2013

Wesley Morris, Grantland: There's a casualness at work here that's absorbing because Garrel doesn't make a moment mean more than it ought to. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: "Jealousy" has a quiet melancholy that's very pleasing. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Philippe Garrel's movies feel like ghost stories: delicate, enigmatic, and haunted by some indelible, unnameable presence, which a viewer can't help but suspect is the director's own past. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: Conventional dramatic hooks have no place in Garrel's filmography, so it's not surprising that his new movie is more atmospheric than involving, or that the two beautiful bed heads at its center hardly invite emotional connection. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Quiet moments after big decisions are where the power lies in this absorbing French drama. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: In a brief 77 minutes, "Jealousy" provides a remarkably full - and also an intriguingly partial - portrait of a group of struggling artists as no-longer-entirely-young men and women. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: In comparison with near-impenetrable Garrel efforts like Regular Lovers (2005) and Frontier of the Dawn (2008), Jealousy cuts straight to the heart. Read more

Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: Vital and vigorous even when its characters feel scraped of vigor/vitality, Philippe Garrel's latest finds boho Parisians facing the ends of marriages, affairs, and the feasibility of bohemian existence itself. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: While certainly no love story, this dry-eyed tale feels achingly, maybe even exhilaratingly alive. Read more