My Afternoons with Margueritte

My Afternoons with Margueritte (2011)

  • 84% of critics liked it
    (57 reviews)

  • 78% of users liked it
    (4,568 ratings)

My Afternoons with Margueritte is the story of life's random encounters. In a small French town, Germain, a nearly illiterate man in his 50's and considered to be the village idiot by his friends at the local bistro, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to sit beside Marguerite, a little old… More

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R, 1 hr. 22 min.
Directed By
Jean Becker
Written By
Jean Becker, Jean-Loup Dabadie
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 16, 2011 Limited
On DVD
Jun 19, 2012
Cohen Media Group

Critic Reviews

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    A sweet puff of a film, My Afternoons With Margueritte is as disarming as it is absurd.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    The happy ending lays it on too thick, but what the hell: In for a dime, in for a dollar.

  • Adam Bernstein, Washington Post

    A predictable, undernourished love story.

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    It's a lovely movie.

  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

    It's determined to look on the bright side. The film isn't about the actor's intelligence. It's about his emotional radiance.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Greg S


    An oaf (Gerard Depardieu) forms an unlikely friendship with a 95-year old woman who sees the intelligence buried inside of him. This sweet, literate character study will play well for it's target audience of little old ladies, but less well for its secondary audience of… More

  • c0up  


    'My Afternoons With Margueritte'. Sweet, charming, filled with moments of oddball humour, and two lovable leading performances! In Depardieu's last monologue, he said something like "it's not a typical love story, but the 'love' and… More

  • Panta O


    This French work of art directed by Jean Becker owes everything to the two great actors: Gerard Depardieu as Germain Chazes and Gisele Casadesus as Marguerite. Such chemistry exists between the actor and the actress that it seems impossible that anyone else could be casted for those… More

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