SummaryMaking the most of the family home while her parents are away, Nicole, 22 years old, is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. When Nicole's older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls' friendship is put to the test. Their vacation takes an unexpected turn, punctuated by a heatwave, Nicole's growing inso... Read More
Directed By:Stéphane Lafleur
Written By:Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne, Stéphane Lafleur
Tu Dors Nicole
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Generally Favorable
79
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Generally Favorable
6.6
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
92% Positive
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Apr 28, 2015
100
Lafleur maintains a bouncy, consistently funny tone that you'd describe as featherlight, were there not real weight grounding it all. It's a near-miraculous trick, and evidence of the immense talent on display here: he has a real talent for making comedy work visually, and as you might expect from a former editor, a sense not just for landing a joke, but for creating a unique and distinctive rhythm.
May 27, 2015
83
Shot on gorgeous black-and-white 35 mm that only seems to enhance the melancholic drabness of the events it depicts, Tu Dors Nicole is an especially wispy, French-Canadian addition to an irresistible genre.
Apr 28, 2015
80
The actors, some of whom have worked with Lafleur before, are entirely in tune with his intentions and display a beguiling chemistry.
Apr 28, 2015
80
Lafleur delivers an affecting, funny and eccentric -- in the best sense of the word -- meditation on that in-between state that people in their early twenties find themselves, as they are technically old enough to participate fully in all of life’s activities but they still lack the experience to know what they really want or what’s really good for them.
Apr 28, 2015
75
Lafleur denies Nicole the angsty treatments given similar characters in films like The Graduate and Frances Ha by refusing to saturate the film with an undergirding sense of charm, where the issues being faced are merely points of spasmodic uncertainty that will erode over time.
Apr 28, 2015
60
The aimless, wandering of this twenty-something is a little kooky but rarely unfunny, and Côté flourishes as a woman positively drained by the prospect of having to move forward at all.
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6.6
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Jul 1, 2015
3
The film's style, the script, and the acting, was all just bizarre. The plot is non existent: the film goes absolutely nowhere, and even in films like that, and there have been spectacular plotless films, Tu Dors Nicole is far from being one of them. There was at least one aspect of the film I liked, but I won't give it away, because I don't want to spoil people the only wonder of this film. It almost feels like an experimental film, which is not what I came into the theatre wanting to see.
