Critic Reviews

• Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

  The film is delightfully unpredictable, warm, nuanced. It's civilized entertainment.

• Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

  Though you wouldn't know it from Hollywood's kids 'r us obsessions, directors actually can improve as they advance in age.

• Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

  There's a form of poetic justice in all this, and it gives the film, otherwise straitlaced, its jagged wit: Women on the lookout for love may be fools, but they make sure to turn the men who romance them into even bigger ones.

• J. Hoberman, Village Voice

  The he-said, she-said shenanigans suggest that high school may be eternal but autumn has its wisdom. In the last scene, the 78-year-old filmmaker brings his favorite conspirator back for a last dance -- it's a vintage performance that invites applause.

• Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International

  The goings-on come across as a bit too lightweight.

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  Terrific performances and masterful direction make this a warm delight for art-minded viewers.

• Susan Tavernetti, Palo Alto Weekly

  With this romance, the director, now in his late 70s, completes his Tales of Four Seasons quartet on a hopeful note. Although slight in plot and slow in pace, the film offers much to admire.

• Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle

  This French film is a quietly interesting but unusually perceptive story about love and relationships.

• Margaret A. McGurk, Cincinnati Enquirer

  The 79-year-old writer-director proves that age has only purified his special ability to mine emotional truth from tiny moments with exquisite finesse.

• Ed Scheid, Boxoffice Magazine

  [Rohmer's] best film in years.

• William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  t's another enjoyable comedy of manners that seems both highly original, and, at the same time, pleasantly familiar.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  In this enchanting film, our hearts go out to these well-meaning women who want only the best for the friend they love.

• Arthur Lazere, culturevulture.net

  very engaging, very smart, very talky, very French, and most of all, very wise

• Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

  Sitting through Eric Rohmer's Autumn Tale is rather like being trapped at a small dinner party with a half-dozen, loquacious strangers. As they drone on and on, you realize why this form of conversation is called small talk.

• Mike Gregory, Reel.com

  Filled with gentle humor, affectionate and mature, An Autumn's Tale offers much-needed refuge from the crude bombast of summer blockbusters.

• , E! Online

  The generation gap between heart and mind and youth and maturity is sharply underscored in this introspective study, with Libolt a standout as the dating game's befuddled, charming pawn.

• Stuart Klawans, The Nation

  Here, in vigorous old age, comes another master: Eric Rohmer, age 79, whose Autumn Tale is now brightening the lives of all who watch it.

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