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Lover for a Day
Directed by
Philippe Garrel
Not Rated
2017
76m
Drama
,
Romance
6.6
82%
41%
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A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age.
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Cast of Lover for a Day
Éric Caravaca
Gilles
Esther Garrel
Jeanne
Louise Chevillotte
Ariane
Laëtitia Spigarelli
Narratrice (voice)
Nicolas Bridet
Le prof
Paul Toucang
Matéo
Félix Kysyl
Stéphane
Michel Charrel
Le patron du bar
Marie Sergeant
Yentel
Raphaël Naasz
Le jeune homme à la cigarette
Justine Bachelet
L'amie du resto
Christian Bouillette
L'ivrogne
Manon Chircen
Une danseuse
Maïa Foucault
Une danseuse
Louise Guillaume
Une danseuse
Morgane Real
Une danseuse
Jean Chevalier
Un danseur
Julien Frison
Un danseur
Roman Jean-Elie
Un danseur
Selim Zahrani
Un danseur
Gabriel Acremant
Sonia Floire
Pia Lagrange
Sofia Teillet
Antoine Cordier
Suzanne De Baecque
Zoé Fauconnet
Lucie Gallo
Lucie Grunstein
Loulou Hanssen
Hugues Jourdain
Sofian Khammes
Caroline Marcos
Martin Nikonoff
Philippe Garrel
Director / Writer
Jean-Claude Carrière
Writer
Caroline Deruas
Writer
Arlette Langmann
Writer
Saïd Ben Saïd
Producer
Michel Merkt
Producer
Lover for a Day Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Garrel creates a sort of classically French ambience, somewhere between the nervous energy of Godard and the emotional perspicacity of Renoir.
Always Good Movies
Filipe Freitas
Even dismaying in its conclusion, the auteur crafts it with sufficient élan to deserve a favorable mention.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
With so much of the film... spent with its characters unloading what's on their minds, the expressive Garrel fille turns what's roiling around her skull into continual visceral intrigue.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Alluring melodramatic romantic triangle.
Film Inquiry
Samantha Celentano
Despite its flaws, Lover for a Day is a thoughtful piece of cinema. Viewers won't be disappointed by the sympathetic narrative and will especially enjoy Garrel and Chevillotte.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bob Strauss
Philippe Garrel's latest French relationship kerfuffle boasts solid acting and credibly crafted behavior, as all of the director's black-and-white, latter-day Nouvelle Vague dramas do.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
Realism keeps this story grounded, even when its characters give soaring voice to their deepest hopes and frustrations.
Village Voice
April Wolfe
These characters are fixed. They have no arc. And Garrel seems to prefer them learning no lessons from the experience.
RogerEbert.com
Susan Wloszczyna
Lover for a Day just wasn't enough of a grabber pour moi.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Despite its neo-new-wave style, Lover for a Day is neither offhand nor autobiographical.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
There are times when the characters - and their director - surprise and genuinely delight.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Lover For A Day explores its almost high-concept narrative via Garrel's usual dreamy, glancing style.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Garrel's venerable mode of personal filmmaking exalts intimate life as fragmented melodrama, but his latest film plays more like an unintentional self-parody.
Film Comment Magazine
Kent Jones
In Garrel's third black-and-white meditation on jealousy ... the spells of sustained breathable time have become a little more compact but no less beautiful or wondrously close to lived existence.
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
The story is quotidian, but the performances have a low-key psychological charge, and the images-exquisitely shadowed black-and-white 35mm- give the narrative a timelessness that is precisely the point of Garrel's enterprise.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
The director's current storytelling style is not unlike that of a great pop ballad: lyrical and to the point, without room for digressions, yet still containing a wealth of feeling through the most economic of means.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
Garrel and his screenwriter, the legendary Jean-Claude Carriere manage to cram a lot of philosophical ideas and concepts into the short running time, but I found myself caring less about them.
IndieWire
Ben Croll
[Garrel's] detractors contend that he always makes the same film; his defenders say that's the point.
Variety
Pamela Pianezza
An alluring and very elegantly crafted - though largely predictable - romantic dramedy that should do well in territories where the French auteur is already known and esteemed.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
Frequently fascinating minor Garrel ...
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