Mademoiselle Chambon 2009

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: One way to think of Mademoiselle Chambon (a chambon is a piece of a horse's halter) is as Brief Encounter as reimagined by Eric Rohmer. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: A charmingly direct film of simple contrasts about the difficulty of change. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: An exquisite chamber piece made with the kind of sensitivity and nuance that's become almost a lost art. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Mademoiselle Chambon is moving in spots, but it doesn't stir you the way the best films about heartache do. You feel for these two star-crossed lovers, then forget about them the moment the movie is over. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Sandrine Kiberlain is a fragile beauty and wonderful French actress who is not as well known here as she should be. Perhaps Mademoiselle Chambon will help rectify that oversight. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Mademoiselle Chambon is about love in midlife, about two souls meeting, and how that can be the most beautiful thing in the world but also the most inconvenient. Read more

Rob Nelson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Brize does score a nifty variation on the cliched rushing-to-meet-destiny climax. But this encounter, brief indeed at a mere 90 minutes, doesn't fully convince. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: A heartbreaking, ambiguous twist on 'Brief Encounter', railway station finale and all. Take hankies. Read more

Eric Hynes, Time Out: Stationing the camera at a safe remove and letting scenes run their course, it's the sort of slow-burn romantic drama that asks its actors to bear the emotional brunt of the film -- and its leads deliver. Read more

Jordan Mintzer, Variety: Thoughtful and endearing. Read more

Michelle Orange, Village Voice: Discretely drawn and elegantly photographed, Mademoiselle Chambon gives a French, working-class love triangle the Brief Encounter treatment. Read more