Critic Reviews

• Stephanie Merry, Washington Post

  Early inertia gives way to a revealing and enthralling portrait of the actress.

• Ty Burr, Boston Globe

  Her chattiness here is unexpected and disarming, and if the film's overindulgent, it puts you in a forgiving mood. How often do we get to hear a lioness speak?

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  A unique documentary portrait of one of cinema's most quietly enduring talents.

• Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

  "Charlotte Rampling: The Look" emerges as a free-floating, intriguing portrait of the artist as a 60-something woman, filled with quotable tidbits.

• V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  How can you not admire an actress who'd share top billing with a simian?

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  Ms. Rampling is presented as an endlessly watchable mystery, an aloof but affable sphinx. But we knew that already.

• Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

  This is only partially effective docu of life and times ofRampling, one of the most mesmerizing screen presences of the past four decades, failing to explian why and how she became such an icon.

• Betsy Sherman, Boston Phoenix

  Rampling's physical gifts, unimpeded by plastic surgery in their march through time, are matched by a keen mind and an unapologetic approach to life and work.

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  A far more revealing look at the real Rampling than any of her nude scenes.

• Jennifer Merin, About.com

  Charlotte Rampling, sublimely wise at age 55, comments on her performances, career and personal evolution, while looking into filmmaker Angelina Maccarone's camera for this insightful, intimate profile of the revered actress.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  One of the most enduringly fascinating actresses in cinema is intriguingly revealed in this admiring documentary, happily laced with tons of movie talk.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  A sophisticated documentary in which veteran actress Charlotte Rampling talks about her career, art, and aging.

• Noel Murray, AV Club

  The best segments in Charlotte Rampling: The Look have less to do with the actress' musings on life and death and more to do with her exploration of artifice.

• Diego Costa, Slant Magazine

  She's the kind of star America is incapable of producing, apart from a nostalgia-tinged fantasy of Madonna--at once object and agent, muse and auteur.

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