A Paris Education: reviews

What the critics say

• The Hollywood ReporterJordan Mintzer "A sincere and very specific kind of coming-of-age tale...The result feels slightly out of time, yet true to its own intentions, and it brings to mind how some of the best French movies ? especially those of the New Wave ? are marked by both an intense love of film and the fiery passions of youth. Indeed, in A Paris Education, cinephilia can sometimes turn into a matter of life and death". Read
• The New YorkerRichard Brody "The shaded black-and-white cinematography and the dialectical romances mimic the styles and moods of nineteen-seventies French classics without their intimacy, rage, or historical scope". Read
• New York TimesTeo Bugbee "The shabbiness of the digital photography in "A Paris Education" reflects the hollowness of its own ambitions". Read