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Private Fears in Public Places
Directed by
Alain Resnais
2006
2h
Drama
,
Romance
6.9
76%
53%
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In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
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Cast of Private Fears in Public Places
Sabine Azéma
Charlotte
Laura Morante
Nicole
Pierre Arditi
Lionel
André Dussollier
Thierry
Lambert Wilson
Dan
Isabelle Carré
Gaëlle
Claude Rich
Arthur (voix)
Michel Vuillermoz
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Françoise Gillard
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Anne Kessler
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Roger Mollien
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Florence Muller
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Alain Resnais
Director
Alan Ayckbourn
Writer
Jean-Michel Ribes
Writer
Bruno Pésery
Producer
Valerio De Paolis
Producer
Private Fears in Public Places Ratings & Reviews
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
What makes Private Fears so extraordinary is not just how it completely upends the expectations that have come to seem inherent in such a structure, but how Resnais constantly pushes the boundaries of his, well, let's call it visual depiction.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
What reaches us, most of all, are the hidden, unmet longings that keep the film's Parisian characters from finding true happiness.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Private Fears suffers from [director Alain] Resnais' inability to open it up and give it the look and pulse of a film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Resnais shapes affecting performances from a polished cast. He creates a warm, comic melancholy.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Resnais has always been an expressionist, using his settings and compositions to evoke the inner states of his characters. Here, tying expressionism to social critique, he becomes an improbable but unmistakable blood brother of Carl Dreyer.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A film about love and blunders done from the perspective of age, crafted by writer Alan Ayckbourn, 68, and director Alain Resnais, 85. Our younger directors and screenwriters should show this much brilliance and feeling.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Few filmmakers portray emotional detachment so achingly well.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Private Fears in Public Places, a masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its wintry yet warm perspective is suffused with the wisdom and experience of a great filmmaker who turns 85 on June 2.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
It's a Parisian romantic roundelay with sundry couples connecting and disconnecting, but it looks and sounds like no sex comedy ever made: It's transcendentally yummy.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
New Wave stalwart Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) hasn't lost a step with age, and his decision to shroud the action in constant snowfall gives the film a surprisingly magical air.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
At an age when most people are reduced to waiting for the Grim Reaper, Resnais is challenging life as if he were half a century younger.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The film is beautifully shot and edited, but these emotional snapshots won't stay long in the memory.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Private Fears in Public Places is far from difficult and that, it is also worth noting, is not a criticism. The film is accessible, pleasant, dreamy, a touch goofy and melancholic.
Newsday
John Anderson
Alain Resnais turns this multi-character tale of misspent love into pure cinema, transforming the physical world into a symbolic statement about divisions, distances and separation anxiety.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Something about Resnais' rigorous attention to the tiniest detail, his infinitesimal flourishes of surrealism and the metrical precision of Eric Gautier's camerawork -- not to mention the terrific cast of French cinema veterans -- finally sucked me in.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
[A] mature adaptation of a dramatic daisy chain by veteran British playwright Alan Ayckbourn.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
Lowbrow plus highbrow does not equal middlebrow, and the breezy accessibility of Private Fears in Public Places does not make it any less a work of art than Resnais's more difficult early successes.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
At 84, Mr. Resnais has lost none of the fatalistic cutting edge he first displayed almost 60 years ago. His films are never to be missed.
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
A masterful trifle.
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