La belle époque

It's comedy-drama that is not funny enough to count as a comedy and not plausible enough to count as a drama.

Where so many high-concept romantic comedies squander their one big idea, "La Belle Époque" leverages its own to remind how and why we fall in love in the first place...

Everything clicks here, all the time.

This delicious tale of lovers a half century apart is a postmodern romance. Part choose your own romantic adventure and era, part relationship drama.

Cleverness and brilliant editing will sustain us through a story that's irremediably elemental, simple, and light.

Sure it’s manipulative, but this uneven French romantic comedy is also overflowing with old-fashioned uplifting charm.

An entertaining film. [Full review in Spanish]

There are hints of The Game, It's a Wonderful Life and The Truman Show, but this clever, funny, one-step- ahead-of-you script is really quite unique. Fantastic.

Instead of moving into any humorous exploration of the underlayers of the human condition, Bedos presents everything a bit like an outdated vaudeville-esque show.

A pleasingly strange comedy... takes a somewhat familiar high concept and applies it to the story of two men [growing] older, but not necessarily wiser.