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- Release Date: 2006
- Runtime: 120 min
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Starring: Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Carré, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi ... see all
- Director: Alain Resnais
- Plot: Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who thinks a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand... Read more
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| Jun 01, 2008FilmInk
Part comedy of errors, part farce, part romance, part drama --....Coeurs is entertaining in parts..... ... Full Review
| Jul 16, 2007BBC Films
the graceful camerawork....the beautifully judged ensemble performances which invest the film with real humanity.... ... Full Review
| Jun 15, 2007Combustible Celluloid
Alain Resnais, currently 84, and the author of such certified masterpieces as Night and Fog , Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad , returns with yet another amazing film.....Even if these characters fail to find love, many have at least loved and lost, shining briefly like the snow.... ... Full Review
| May 04, 2007Los Angeles Times
Private Fears in Public Places" is a film that Jean Renoir would have appreciated.....rather spaces, to express his characters' predicaments and to define their relationships to each other.....Resnais demands and receives tremendous vitality and nuance from his cast, several of whom have worked with him numerous times..... ... Full Review
| Apr 13, 2007MTV.com
While he barely communicates with his girlfriend Nicole (Laura Morante), she's convinced they will still marry and opts to ignore his obvious problems. ... Full Review
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The most recent of this year's revivals to mark Alan Ayckbourn's 70th birthday, Private Fears in Public Places is a play that doesn't join its dots. ... Full Article
Wild Grass
variety.com –
2009-06-09
Like "Private Fears" and several other recent features by Resnais, the film is an adaptation of an existing work that the director (this time aided by relatively inexperienced scribes Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiert) transforms into his own, often elusive,... ... Full Article
Mark Snow got the chance of a lifetime to work with iconic French director Alain Resnais ( Hiroshima Mon Amour , Night and Fog ) and compose a score that has nothing to do with aliens, serial killers, or giant... ... Full Article
AMERICAN-STATESMAN FILM CRITIC Friday, May 30, 2008 Forget Judd Apatow and the gang for now. Let's peek outside our borders for a chortle, a chuckle. ... Full Article
Warm hearts come in from the cold in Resnais's Private Fears in Public Places
telegraph.co.uk –
2007-07-20
Retirement isn't a custom our greatest filmmakers tend to observe. John Huston directed The Dead, an utter masterpiece, just months before his death at the age of 81; the late Robert Altman was 80 when he shot his charming swansong... ... Full Article
Oh, I know I'm supposed to be ecstatic because it's from French New Wave director Alain Resnais, but all I can think is that it should be called Six Characters in Search of a Reason Why I Should Care . ... Full Article