The Clink Of Ice (Le Bruit Des Glacons) (2011)

Critic Reviews

• Simon Foster, sbs.com.au

  It is heartening that Blier at 72, an aging icon from French cinema's glorious heyday, can still undertake such challenging material and deliver a whimsical, immensely watchable, if ultimately flawed, new film.

• Jonas Milk, Little White Lies

  The addition of star power - Depardieu or someone of his ilk - might have injected more interest to what was always going to be a hard sell.

• Andrew Pulver, Guardian [UK]

  Blier's penchant for deep-black humour allows him to get some funny, nasty jabs in at Charles's self-pitying, petit-bourgeois existence.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  The scenario pauses to congratulate itself too often, but Anne Alvaro is superb as Dujardin's anxious and besotted housekeeper.

• Tom Dawson, Total Film

  Despite the theatrical execution, it's winningly acted, while Blier provides a typically defiant resolution for his transgressive lovers.