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Life of Riley
Directed by
Alain Resnais
Not Rated
2014
1h 48m
Comedy
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Drama
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6.0
73%
42%
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In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
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Cast of Life of Riley
Sabine Azéma
Kathryn
Hippolyte Girardot
Colin
Caroline Silhol
Tamara
Michel Vuillermoz
Jack
Sandrine Kiberlain
Monica
André Dussollier
Simeon
Alba Gaïa Bellugi
Tilly
Alain Resnais
Director
Laurent Herbiet
Writer
Jean-Marie Besset
Writer
Alex Réval
Writer
Jean-Louis Livi
Producer
Life of Riley Ratings & Reviews
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Life of Riley is a highly styled exercise from a master filmmaker, a bittersweet addendum to an impressive body of work.
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Sean Axmaker
... a pleasant frivolity, a mix of bedroom farce (without the bedrooms), romantic comedy, and self-aware theater that opens on the first day of rehearsals and ends after closing night.
The Film Stage
Forrest Cardamenis
A funny, energetic, comic-book-influenced film marked by saturated colors, theatrical sets, and middle-aged people acting like the lovelorn leads favored by Eric Rohmer.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
As in all of Resnais's theatrical adaptations, the performances are warm and naturalistic, countering the artificiality of the stage conventions and illuminating the universal struggle to create personal meaning in lives bound by social convention.
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Sarah Boslaugh
...if you go for clever contrivances, you may love it, but if your taste runs runs toward more straightforward storytelling, you'll probably want to run screaming from the auditorium.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
So frothy and chiffonesque it threatens to burst its own cheeks.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
Delightful, fanciful comedy is given much added life by performances from a strong cast, pungent dialogue and inspired production design.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
What a way to go. If you have to go, and we all do.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Where the director's early work was haunted by the Holocaust, the atomic bomb and the Algerian war, Life of Riley blithely celebrates love, possibility and absurdist surprises.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
"Life of Riley" is neither especially profound nor riotously funny.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
If this isn't a grand finale (2012's "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" felt that way), it's still an affectionate coda for a master.
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Mike D'Angelo
If it's a comedy, it's one utterly devoid of laughs; if it's a drama, its antic nature forestalls any deep emotion.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
One of the cinema's most lighthearted and free-spirited farewells.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A French comedy of manners in which various couples try to cope with middle-age disappointments and mediocre marriages.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Alain Resnais's overpoweringly beautiful final film dares to push through the ghosts that inhabit the present, standing between the pessimism of an ill-spent past and the optimism of an undefined future.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Life of Riley isn't for everyone, and I have to admit that it wasn't entirely for me... Resnais is doing something simpler, lighter, and in many ways, more academic and safe.
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