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Café de Flore
Directed by
Jean-Marc Vallée
2011
2h 1m
Not Rated
Drama
,
Romance
7.3
64%
76%
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A love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son. A mystical and fantastical odyssey on love.
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Cast of Café de Flore
Vanessa Paradis
Jacqueline
Kevin Parent
Antoine Godin
Hélène Florent
Carole
Evelyne Brochu
Rose
Marin Gerrier
Laurent
Alice Dubois
Véronique
Evelyne de la Chenelière
Amélie
Michel Dumont
Julien Godin
Joanny Corbeil-Picher
Juliette
Rosalie Fortier
Angéline
Michel Laperrière
Psychologist
Caroline Bal
Véronique's Mother
Nicolas Marié
Véronique's Father
Pascal Elso
Paul
Jérôme Kircher
Louis
Claire Vernet
School Principal
Manon Balthazard
Teacher
Émile Vallée
Antoine at 14
Chanel Fontaine
Carole at 14
Emanuelle Beaugrand-Champagne
Medium
Misstress Barbara
DJ at Electronic Picnic
Luc Raymond
DJ at Loft
Yves Perreault
Speaker at AA Meeting
Jean-Marc Vallée
Neighbour
Antoine Duchesneau
Young Cousin
Axel Racette
Child in the Car
Caroline Gilbert
Mother of the Child with Down Syndrome
Lucas Bonin
Child with Down Syndrome
Juliette G. Even
Nadine
Jonathan De Pinho
Young Beefeater
Jean-Pierre Hilaréguy
Beefeater
Annick Desmarais
Flight Attendant
Cahterine Laferrière-Faubert
Acupuncturist
Yves Fortin
Wedding Photographer
Franck Mercadal
Speech Therapist
Baptiste Delas
Charles
Dominique Foure
Hair Salon Customer
Fabienne Mésenge
The Mother of Laurent's Friend
Jean-Yves Roan
Doctor
Richard Chevallier
Boxing Instructor
Marc Galtié
Man in Metro
Catherine Giron
Secretary at the School
Raphaël Maillot
Laurent (3 Months)
Matthis Caffa
Laurent (6 Months)
Trystan Fasquel
Laurent (2 Years)
Baptise Gouwy
Laurent (4 Years)
Café de Flore Reviews
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
A forgettable film.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
It's terribly long and repetitive for so delicately dreamy a diptych, and at times the modern-day story feels like little more than a drawn-out apologia for the wandering male gaze.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Goes from intriguing to irritating.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Feels less like a movie than like a cinematic jigsaw puzzle whose agitation undermines the very continuity it wants to portray.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
This is a gorgeous, flashy, widescreen epic, like Boogie Nights or Casino, about the most essential things in life: Family, friends and love. But most of all, love.
Slant Magazine
Steve Macfarlane
Jean-Marc Valle deploys a pretty sweeping arsenal of clichs in shoving his camera through the characters' streams of consciousness.
TIME Magazine
Mary Corliss
The film is generous to all its besotted creatures, and to the audience as well. Viewers who fall in love with Caf de Flore will find that it loves them back.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
Acting and soundtrack are spot-on but the frequent jump-cuts and lack of a compelling comparison between families work against the film's success.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
An ambitious and sporadically electrifying drama...
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A moving drama about how love is refined through troubles in the lives of a devoted mother in 1969 Paris and a middle-aged man in 2011 Montreal.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
The cumulative effect is more tedious than profound.
Times-Picayune
Mike Scott
An intriguingly unconventional drama that revels in dreamy interludes, stream-of-consciousness montages and weighty drama - but that never lives up to its stylistic promise.
Village Voice
Brian Miller
This mushy, mystical French-Canadian melodrama tries to make parallel a pair of love stories: one between preteens with Down syndrome in 1969 Paris, and the second between a Quebecois DJ and his new amour some 40 years later.
Paste Magazine
Gabrielle Lipton
As abstract as the film is in theory, it is brought together with the conclusiveness of finishing a puzzle with no missing pieces.
MovieScope
Anton Bitel
As these parallel narratives unfold, separated by time and space but conjoined by their shared motifs of love, loss, jealousy and obsession, hints emerge of other, less strictly thematic connections between them.
Hollywood Reporter
Neil Young
Decade-hopping metaphysical romance descends into overwrought histrionics.
Variety
Boyd van Hoeij
[A] loose-limbed, emotionally complex work.
That Shelf
Rachel West
To discuss how the parallel storylines come together would ruin things for anyone who has yet to watch the movie, but their collision course still packs an emotional wallop a decade later.
Vague Visages
Q.V. Hough
Fortunately for Vallée, both Paradis and Gerrier absolutely own their scenes, thus creating a strange paradox with the opposite storyline full of brilliant visuals/sounds, but forgettable characters.
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