Thanks, presumably, to the success of Wild Reeds, this slightly earlier and better André Téchiné film gets its chance -- although, lacking the nostalgic, coming-of-age, homosexual, and political hooks, a slim one. The main characters and situation are credible -- an estranged sister and brother obliged in middle age to negotiate with one another over the problem of their failing mother -- and Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil are superb, if ill-matched as siblings. The careful, cautious spinning-out is long, slow, talky, a bit limited in range. And some of the devices to heighten interest -- the Moroccan secretary's striptease at Christmas dinner, the suicide fantasy, the wordless tryst with a complete stranger in the park -- are rather shabby. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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