68
Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
12(75%)
mixed
3(19%)
negative
1(6%)
Showing 16 Critic Reviews
90
Brings maximum subtlety, nuance and insight into the timeless story of first love.
90
Charged by Rideau's amazingly sexy performance as the most forthright gay character put on screen to date, this is a fine piece of filmmaking.
90
The elusive, quicksilver nature of young love is often reduced to crude simplicities by the movies, but director Sebastien Lifshitz and writing partner Stephane Bouquet have observed it with a superb balance of aesthetics and insight in Come Undone.
80
A melancholy valentine to broken hearts and lost innocence.
75
The photography is strong, the performances sympathetic and the sex plentiful.
75
A delicately managed piece that is by turns intimately detailed and elliptical, and that's an approach that suits the tangled emotions of its two protagonists.
75
Turns increasingly interior and emotionally complex. It refuses to connect, putting the pressure entirely on its viewers to reach their own conclusions.
By Patrick Z. McGavin
FULL REVIEW 70
A moody, subtle drama that has more in common with the tragedy of "Endless Love" than "Where The Boys Are."
70
Come Undone's true subject is, simply enough, the perspective-warping enormity of first love, as preserved in a scrapbook of before-and-after snapshots.
70
Ultimately, Come Undone isn't a movie about homosexuality, depression or family dynamics. For a gay coming-out story, its sexual politics are extremely muted.
