The movie's steady attention to detail lends it a texture rarely found in films about domestic life. Its eye and ear for the particular and for what is left unsaid in tense conversation is unerring.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Highly enjoyable romantic comedy.
80
Variety
Variety
Accomplished freshman outing by Flemish TV director Christophe van Rompaey features a knockout perf from actress Barbara Sarafian ("8½ Women").
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A pleasing alternative to the season's Oscar-baiting movies.
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
An uncommon comedy that is fairly serious most of the time.
At worst is inoffensive. But that's the point. When you're making a movie about people whose lives are torn up in this way, inoffensiveness is, well, offensive.
50
Village Voice
Village Voice
We're not talking the Dardennes brothers here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu.
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This Belgian comedy suffers from the fact that its mismatched lovers are so consistently unpleasant; it catches fire only in the scenes between the mother and the daughter.