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  • Private Fears in Public Places
  • Opened April 13, 2007 | Runtime:2 hr. 0 min.
  • NR
  • Six Parisians engage in a lonely and mostly unsuccessful search for real love: Nicole (Laura Morante) and Dan (Lambert Wilson) are engaged to be married, but his drinking drives them apart; Thierry (André Dussollier) flirts with a religious co-worker Read More
  • Cast: Laura Morante, Lambert Wilson, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Carré, André Dussollier
  • Director: Alain Resnais
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    A masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its...

  • 90
    New York Magazine | David Edelstein

    It's a Parisian romantic roundelay with sundry couples connecting and...

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The grand old filmmaker frames each scene like a fine painting. And fake snow...

  • 80
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    The film is accessible, pleasant, dreamy, a touch goofy and melancholic. Its...

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