Where Did You Go, Bernadette?'s reviews
Media reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Linklater, who brought such subtle, generous feeling to films like Boyhood and the Sunset trilogy, feels somehow miscast as the steward of Bernadette?s willful eccentricities.
New York Times
Amusing and sleepy pretty much describe this movie.
The Wrap
Those who arrive without any preconceptions ? or are willing to stray from the novel?s style ? will appreciate the assets of a modestly engaging and gently touching dramedy.
Indiewire
The more engaging question is where Bernadette disappeared to for the two decades before the movie begins. It may not be much of a mystery, but where Bernadette went is far more believable and broadly real a story than where she ends up. It?s a story that?s too complicated for Linklater to tell here.
Rolling Stone
It?s the human devastation that gets short shrift in a movie that turns the hot, hilarious, out-for-blood Bernadette into the thing she hates most: conventional.
The Hollywood Reporter
Richard Linklater's 19th feature becomes compelling in its final act, but before that too often appears tonally addled and dramatically dawdling.
Variety
Linklater, as brilliant a filmmaker as he is, is a kind of Zen rationalist; his shot language and essential humanity invite us to look at Bernadette and think, ?You need help.? But that stops the character, even in her baroquely witty lashing out, from becoming a projection of a larger passion.
The Guardian
It?s the kind of adaptation that is so misjudged that you end up struggling to see why anyone thought it a good idea to adapt in the first place.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote