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Vincent Canby, New York Times: The movie is a supremely humane, sophisticated comedy that is as much fun to watch for the variations Mr. Truffaut works on classic man-woman routines as for the routines themselves. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: It is one of the few late Truffauts to muster any weight and complexity. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: Francois Truffaut's bittersweet 1977 comedy, about the pleasure and the pathos of sexual pursuit, is also an ode to the art of writing. Read more