Cannes. All Is Forgiven.

Variety's Justin Chang finds All Is Forgiven (Tout est pardoneé), a Directors' Fortnight entry, to be "a flawed but sensitively wrought first feature from writer-director Mia Hansen-Love. "Linear but fragmented redemption drama could have been titled Scenes From (and After) a Marriage."

Screen Daily's Lee Marshall finds it "a remarkably graceful, natural film about what it is to be human. Perhaps the most persuasive aspect of this hopeful parable of failure is the way casting, acting, script, and camerawork conspire to usher us into an immediately believable world which is observed with a painterly eye yet never seems staged."

"The movie runs a little long," writes Eric Kohn at indieWIRE. "Nevertheless, the actors demonstrate tremendous nuance in their portrayals of familial grief, and Hansen-Love's particular use of understatement in small exchanges makes it worthwhile to follow her future endeavors."

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Cannes @ 60. Index.

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Posted by dwhudson at May 25, 2007 2:24 AM