Reviews

• A beautiful and haunting film that tells this story, and then tells another subterranean story about the seasons of a marriage.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  20 January 2013

• A grand, dark, grave, severe piece of first-rate cinema.

  Jay Carr - The Boston Globe
  
  20 January 2013

• The subtle selectivity of Leconte's eye, how he moves with great control from gesture to gesture, is matched by the disciplined intensity of the performances.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly
  
  20 January 2013

• It's a kind of 18th-century "Dead Man Walking" but with that earlier film's foreground arguments against capital punishment pushed to the background here.

  Michael O'Sullivan - The Washington Post
  
  20 January 2013

• Mr. Leconte seems at last to have anchored his cinematic gifts to a story worth caring about.

  Dana Stevens - The New York Times
  
  20 January 2013