Review: ) meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot 
Sentiment: negative

Review: and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange 
Sentiment: positive

Review: 's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot 
Sentiment: positive


Review: assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies ' underwear