A Faithful Man

[A] piquant chamber comedy.

The result plays like a short story - deftly detailed, efficient, full of telling vignettes, perfectly formed.

This is a very French movie... It's a fun movie.

This pair of female adventurers aren't even really characters, so much as fantasies. It's a shame because Garrel directs with frothy light-touch flair.

A tart, seriocomic morsel of desire and doubt, Louis Garrel's "A Faithful Man" is the French actor-filmmaker's second examination of triangulated romance after his debut feature as a director, "Two Friends."

An efficient short story of a film that feels more like an intellectual exercise than an emotional experience.

I have all kinds of time for on-screen male pathology, but nothing about this movie is illuminating, plausible or funny; I emerged smoldering with ill-will.

This film might not reinvigorate romantic comedies entirely, but it shows that new avenues within this genre can still be taken.

A Faithful Man gives its audience pause for thought as it comes to its final moments and feels more substantial than its short running time, but its mixture of dark comedy and underlying drama manages to keep a steady balance.

A fresh and contemporary story about how feel love for others and for the self. [Full review in Spanish]