After a while, the temporal shuffling feels more programmatic than revelatory and increasingly false. Elise and Didier are appealing characters, at once vaguely exotic and reassuringly familiar, and it's pleasurable... to watch them fall in love. Yet, by insistently shuffling between the past and the present, Mr. Groeningen... creates a suspect, indefensible logic that suggests that it's because Elise and Didier were once so intensely happy that their grief is so extraordinary.
Manohla Dargis
octobre 31, 2013