- 2019
- 1 h 15 m
SummaryA couple's relationship becomes complicated when she leaves him for his best friend, and returns after he dies.
Directed By:Louis Garrel
Written By:Jean-Claude Carrière, Louis Garrel, Florence Seyvos
A Faithful Man
Metascore
Generally Favorable
67
User score
Mixed or Average
5.5
My Score
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
67
53% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Jul 19, 2019
88
Casta and Garrel generate wary warmth as a couple rediscovering each other, while Depp and Engel provide the comedic ballast.
Sep 11, 2019
72
Dour as Paris appears through Lubtchansky’s lens, Garrel’s filmmaking is dexterous enough that A Faithful Man feels merry all the same.
Oct 9, 2018
70
A Faithful Man seems to be content playfully ruminating on how matters of the heart consume people — and how, sometimes, pursuing someone can be more fulfilling than actually possessing them.
Oct 9, 2018
60
A Faithful Man shows that Garrel has promise as a filmmaker, with a knack for directing actors and a welcome sense of Gallic wit. And as a performer himself, he remains a likeable and sometimes intense screen presence.
Sep 12, 2019
50
This project is in many ways a nod to the films of the French New Wave, and even if the surprisingly unsexy A Faithful Man doesn’t quite measure up, it’s never boring and keeps moving at a brisk pace.
Jul 13, 2019
38
Like a fine wine, Louis Garrel‘s A Faithful Man needs to be opened to the elements, to “breathe.” Because if there’s ever been a more airless, so-dry-one-hesitates-to-label-it “romantic comedy,” I’ve yet to set parched eyes upon it.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.5
25% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
63% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
13% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Mar 20, 2021
4
(Mauro Lanari)
After "Les deux amis" (2015), Garrel returns to directing for his second film full of words. L'enfant fidèle, a pre-adolescent still biologically in need of family order and stability, and Paul, the great absentee, perhaps only a putative father (the child is called Joseph), virtuous by virtue of his own death, are opposed to the paroxysmal chaos of adults with their desire in disarray, unable to distinguish freedom from libertinism by living bonds, relationships, feelings, loves dictated by hormones, and with the male protagonist increasingly passive object of skirmishes between two female archetypes. Until the spermarche, the enfant will have won. Garrel and Letitia Casta had already married the previous year.
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Production Company:
- Why Not Productions
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- La Région Île-de-France
Release Date:Jul 19, 2019
Duration:1 h 15 m
Awards
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Transilvania International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
