86
Metascore
39 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutAnna BogutskayaTime OutAnna BogutskayaIt explores love, both romantic and familial, with no trace of drama or sappiness, and without ever feeling slight. It’s a balm of a film and another glorious showcase for the director’s light touch when dealing with complicated emotions.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschIn the quietly miraculous One Fine Morning (Un beau matin), writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve and her leading lady Léa Seydoux make the old feel new again.
- 90Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganHansen-Love finds moments of truth in the melange, and Seydoux is transcendent, carrying a sadness inside which proves incredibly moving when the opportunity for love presents itself and she melts into it.
- 83IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichHansen-Løve has traced her own paternal grief into an illuminatingly honest sketch about how loss is necessary for rebirth, guilt inextricable from self-fulfillment, and the present worth savoring for its role in bringing the past and the future together — rather than as a buffer for keeping them apart.
- 83The PlaylistCarlos AguilarThe PlaylistCarlos AguilarAs Sandra, Seydoux puts forward a delicately incandescent performance portraying someone in an unstable state, whose conflicting emotions about what she can’t change overwhelm her.
- 83The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorShot in gorgeous natural light by Denis Lenoir (the cinematographer on all but one of her films since Eden), and backed by a soundtrack of typically esoteric needle-drops, the director delivers her finest in years by doing what she’s always done best: a humanistic story of when to love and when to let go.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawFor all its tendency to soap opera, it has a lovely happy-sad sweetness.
- 80TheWrapKatie WalshTheWrapKatie WalshLike a weaver on a loom, Hansen-Løve loops these moments together, threading small moments of thought-provoking social commentary throughout, revealing the larger picture only once the process is done, offering a snapshot of a moment in time, a profound and captivating portrait of love, lost, found, and ever-remaining.