Quelques jours en septembre

Reviewers talk quirky, but offering a different view of an event in September 2001 has to take a roundabout journey to give space for us to rethink events we regard as given. This is not about what the old generation can... Full review

In short: This is a very arrogant and unsuccessful attempt to be another Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, or Hector Babenco. This movie was terrible. And, I do not dislike this movie solely because of the rampant anti-Americanism. I also dislike this... Full review

A Cliché wrapped in an Amateur swallowed by a Poseur. ...The "laughter" of a sophisticated Binoche when a banality is uttered. ...The inexperienced director telling or allowing Reilly to play cute. ...The Reilly character not doing or saying anything in the... Full review

Despite a very good cast and a clever idea, this film never happened. The acting was good but the director was self-indulgent with his filming technique. The film was slow and built no tension, and by time Nick Nolte arrived, the... Full review

Santiago Amigorena co-wrote one of my favorite French movies of the last few years, Marion Vernoux' Rien a faire, so I checked out Quelque Jours en settembre with high hopes. Whilst it would be untrue to say those hopes were dashed... Full review

Quelques jours en septembre (A Few Days in September) is an intelligent, classy little film that boasts not only a unique story as written and directed by Argentinean Santiago Amigorena, but a fine cast of both seasoned and fresh young actors... Full review

"Quelques Jours en Septembre" is a very ambitious first film for Argentinian author Santiago Amigorena and it shows. Given a relatively big budget (by European independent standards) and a cast to die for, Amigorena squanders it all from the beginning. September... Full review

I don't understand why a few people are raving about aspects of this movie - are they related to the film in some way perhaps? - because I really wanted to like this after everything I've heard, my love of French... Full review

I am an American student studying in France right now, and this is the first foreign film I've seen here. It was a great movie, and was easy to follow for a person with minimal French experience (one of the main... Full review

Verdict An inventive idea is let down by a weak script.....resourceful French spy Juliette Binoche spirits them from Paris to Venice under the nose of poetry-spouting assassin John Turturro, who resembles a Coen caricature..... ... Full Review

CANNES -- Just over three years and seven high-profile movies since unveiling his U.K. indie distributor Transmedia Releasing, Simon Caplan is piecing together a fresh distribution entity dubbed Pictures in Motion. ... Full Article

At the beginning of September, 2001, Elliot (Nick Nolte), an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. ... Full Article

A Few Days In September is a film that is a large chunk French, a little bit of American and the director was born in Argentina; so does this blend of nationalities make a good spy drama or what? ... Full Article

Pleasingly off-kilter... A Few days in September Good news for conspiracy theorists still puzzling over the strange alignment of double agents, financiers and foot-soldiers that allegedly foreshadowed the events of 9/11. ... Full Article

Feeling more like a few months in the cinema, this ploddy, pretentious Euro-pudding is made just about bearable thanks to its cast. Juliette Binoche, John Turturro and Nick Nolte may occupy an area somewhere between A and B list, but... ... Full Article

A Few Days in September is that rarest and most peculiar of creatures: a French arthouse action thriller. Juliette Binoche stars as Irene, a French secret agent who helps to reunite missing American CIA man Eliot (Nick Nolte) with his... ... Full Article