The Exception's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
"'The Exception' is a handsomely mounted World War II-era romantic thriller, enlivened by vibrant performances and vivid sexual encounters and inspired by a little-known footnote to history, the story of a ruler who left but never went away."
Roger Ebert
If Merchant Ivory and Paul Verhoeven ever gave birth to a movie baby[...]. Yes, the narrative is occasionally clunky and there is often more tell than show. But a strong ensemble offers compensation."
New York Times
"Apart from the swearing, the nudity and the nonmarital sex, it?s the kind of suspenseful, romantic melodrama of awakened conscience that might have been made in Hollywood or Britain in the early years of the war, before the worst of its horrors were widely known."
The Wrap
"In a perfect moviegoing world, one in which every reasonable person had already seen all the films of Claude Lanzmann, digested their urgent moral lessons and, therefore, understood going into this kind of trash-adjacent melodrama that there were never any actual Nazis who were nice enough or sexy enough to ditch it all for love. [...] But it?s not that world yet, clearly, [...] Go watch ?Shoah.?