91
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Slant MagazineSlant MagazineExquisite and disturbing, Gueule d’Amour is still one of the screen’s least seen masterpieces.
- 90The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaThe New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaGrémillon supplements the bleak fatalism and noirish intrigue with bursts of quivering melodrama that enrich and expand the story beyond its ostensible fatal-attraction framework.
- 80The New York TimesCaryn JamesThe New York TimesCaryn JamesLike other love stories of the period, Gueule d'Amour has a melodramatic surface, yet it hits a nerve in anyone who has ever spent too much time thinking about the wrong person.
- 80The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneNot every rarity is a revelation, but Lady Killer strikes me as the real deal.