Marguerite & Julien's reviews
Media reviews
Hitfix
Demoustier is charismatic enough to almost help Donzelli pull it off, but Elkaïm is so stiff as Julien you never understand why Marguerite is willing to risk her life in the first place.
The Hollywood Reporter
With a complex and potentially interesting subject such as this one, it might?ve helped if people could explain their point of view or feelings clearer and more often.
Variety
Told to captivate the children?s imagination, the narrative is spun as if inspired by 'Sleeping Beauty', only the aristocratic lovers are siblings and there?s no happy ending. It might have worked as a concept, the cliches so overstated, that nothing can be taken seriously.
The Guardian
This buttock-clenchingly embarrassing movie from director Valérie Donzelli is a pre-Revolutionary period drama from the quality end of the sugary French market - theatrically tricked out with one or two annoying and clumsy Brechtian touches of stylised self-aware modernity.