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Beloved (15)

Beloved (15)

Drama, Musical, Romance

More information on this production is available at www.newwavefilms.co.uk.

The critical consensus

Christophe Honoré goes epic in a tale of interlocking lives that owes a debt to Jacques Demy. It won't be to everyone's taste but it's playful enough to win us over.

****(*)David Hughes, Empire Online, 07/05/2012

Alex Beaupain’s songs effectively convey emotion, but Beloved doesn’t scale the heights of the Truffaut and Demy films it pastiches.

***(*)(*)Tom Dawson, Total Film, 04/05/2012

The result is a sprawling, messily ambitious epic of unrequited love and unfulfilled hearts that is lent an added poignancy by the casting of Mastroianni's mother Catherine Deneuve as the older Madeleine and by all the cinematic ghosts that accompany her appearance.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, The List, 10/05/2012

Christophe Honoré’s delivers on his promises and provides a captivating film that just needs the fat trimming.

***(*)(*)Joseph Walsh, Little White Lies, 10/05/2012

How you react to this film by Christophe Honoré may depend on how you react to its male star Louis Garrel. For me, the brooding Garrel is pretty insufferable, but his mannerisms are at least reasonably in check here.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 10/05/2012

The result is an elegiac tale of love and death with the bonus of Catherine Deneuve as the older Madeleine.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 11/05/2012

Just about watchable, despite a strong whiff of self-absorption.

**(*)(*)(*)David Gritten, The Telegraph, 11/05/2012

Those who like Beloved will file it under guilty pleasures.

Philip French, The Observer, 13/05/2012

Despite charming performances from the principal cast, it’s neither as light on its feet as it could be or as deep as should be.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 31/05/2012

Activist actor Harry Belafonte is clearly a good egg, but Susanne Rostock’s profile topples into hagiography.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 03/06/2012

Where and when?

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday June 8, 2012, until Thursday June 14, 2012. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday June 8, 2012, until Sunday June 10, 2012. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/

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