Reviews

• Damien Chazelle's extraordinary black-and-white retro dream of a feature debut.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  18 May 2013

• If John Cassavetes had directed a jazz musical by Jacques Demy, it might have looked something like this.

  Ian Buckwalter - NPR
  
  18 May 2013

• Visually distinctive and aurally delightful, "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" has style to burn. A soulful black-and-white commentary on love, art and their competing demands, this Boston-based musical from Damien Chazelle floats on a wave of spontaneity and charm.

  Jeannette Catsoulis - The New York Times
  
  18 May 2013

• Guy and Madeline is at once self-conscious and breezy, clumsy and deft, diffident and sweet, annoying and ecstatic. It's amateurish in the best sense, and it radiates cinephilia. No movie I've seen this year has given me more joy.

  J. Hoberman - Village Voice
  
  18 May 2013

• You might want to tuck Damien Chazelle's name into your memory bank if his filmmaking debut, the terrific jazz improvisation that is Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, is any indication of what his future might hold.

  Betsy Sharkey - Los Angeles Times
  
  18 May 2013