Beloved
Beloved
This sly and exquisitely romantic musical drama ... spans over three decades as it follows a mother and daughter's misadventures in love.
2.6 out of 5 based on 9 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
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| Genre |
Drama, Musical, Romance |
| Director |
Christophe Honoré |
| Cast |
Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman Catherine Deneuve |
| Studio |
New Wave Films |
| Release Date |
May 2012 |
| Running Time |
135 mins |
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This sly and exquisitely romantic musical drama ... spans over three decades as it follows a mother and daughter's misadventures in love.
Reviews
Empire Magazine
David Hughes
“If Almodovar made a musical, it might look a bit like this. ”
08/05/2012
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The Evening Standard
Derek Malcolm
“Even those who don’t care for Honoré’s film will have to admit that he is an original who sticks steadfastly to his belief that cinema doesn’t have to be depressing to tell us that life is often pretty difficult to get through without pain.”
11/05/2012
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“The movie is at its lightest, most charming and most persuasive in the 60s; as it approaches the present, something inescapably preposterous weighs it down, though Honoré carries it off with some flair.”
10/05/2012
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Total Film
Tom Dawson
“Doesn’t scale the heights of the Truffaut and Demy films it pastiches.”
04/05/2012
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The Observer
Philip French
“Those who like Beloved will file it under guilty pleasures.”
13/05/2012
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“This being a realistic French musical loosely akin to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, its writer/director, Christophe Honoré, scores a coup in having that film’s star, Catherine Deneuve, to lead his cast. If he had also taken from Jacques Demy’s movie the cue to wrap up the story in 91 minutes, he might really have been on to something. ”
13/05/2012
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The Daily Telegraph
David Gritten
“Curiously, it’s just about watchable, despite a strong whiff of self-absorption. It feels like a vanity project.”
11/05/2012
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Time Out
Dave Calhoun
“The early scenes with Sagnier have real verve, and Honoré handles his first few shifts in time well, but ennui sets in with yet another chapter bringing songs of decreasing quality and events of increasing tiresomeness. ”
10/05/2012
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The Times
Kate Muir
“Beloved is hard to actually watch; instead, you rubberneck it like one long car crash, wondering who thought the mix of a classy call girl, a Czech invasion, a gay crush and gratuitous use of the 9/11 attacks would work as a French musical.”
11/05/2012
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