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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Annaud and his collaborators have got all of the physical details just right, but there is a failure of the imagination here; we do not sense the presence of real people behind the attractive facades of the two main actors. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Scratch away the steamy, evocative surface, remove Jeanne Moreau's veteran-voiced narration, and you have only art-film banalities. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Never mind that in portraying passion, the two seem to be demonstrating the proper use of the Salad Shooter. Read more