Critic Reviews

• Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times

  It's too bad the filmmaker felt the need to lighten his unvarnished observations about aging with "cute" stuff.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  A dour Gallic comedy about five septuagenarian friends living comfortably in the outskirts of Paris who decide to share a house rather than move into retirement homes.

• Joel Arnold, NPR

  The film's central performances reflect both its celebration of age and a sense of wistfulness.

• Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

  Minutes and minutes of cute comedy ensue.

• Rex Reed, New York Observer

  The acting is solid, and the maturity of vision mixed with humor should appeal to the same audience that turned The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel into such an unexpected runaway hit.

• Ernest Hardy, Village Voice

  Well-acted and directed, with melancholy grooved insights that will only be news to the young and narcissistic, Together is a pleasant way to while away an afternoon and see some old pros in great form.

• Marc Mohan, Oregonian

  Things proceed amusingly enough, even when the emergence of old deceptions threatens to veer into melodrama.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  A French dramady about five friends who discover the advantages and challenges to communal living.

• Marsha McCreadie, Film Journal International

  Writer-director Stéphane Robelin pictures a unique approach to getting old for a group of French friends, aided by a can-do and very glamorous transplanted American played by Jane Fonda.

• Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

  The film is somewhat flimsy, tinged with the impulse to make the elderly characters just the right amount of ridiculous for the benefit of younger viewers.

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  It's too conventional to be another 'Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' but features light touches of Gallic comedy and the right degree of sentiment.

• Matthew Toomey, ABC Radio Brisbane

  This could have been a deep, depressing film but director Stéphane Robelin has kept things light... and it works.

• Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

  Finding an alternative to the dreaded retirement home is the basic trigger point for this film, much as it was for the fabulously successful Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. But that's where similarities end.

• Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

  It's not as clunky as Late Bloomers which managed to make a mockery of journeying into old age, but Robelin offers little charm and no solutions in his story about five friends who opt to live together in their autumn years

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