Jean-Paul Rappeneau has taken the spirit of Edmond Rostand's play and filled it to overflowing with energy, rumbustiousness, eloquence and panache.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Jean-Paul Rappeneau has taken the spirit of Edmond Rostand's play and filled it to overflowing with energy, rumbustiousness, eloquence and panache.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The script sears like a whip-crack, with one-liners peppering the action, yet never getting in the way of the film’s emotional depth.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The script sears like a whip-crack, with one-liners peppering the action, yet never getting in the way of the film’s emotional depth.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The film shimmers and provokes where it is least expected.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film shimmers and provokes where it is least expected.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Honoré handles the strands with considerable agility and admirable lack of cliché or sentimentality employing camerawork that is clean and uncluttered.

~ Richard Mowe -

Honoré handles the strands with considerable agility and admirable lack of cliché or sentimentality employing camerawork that is clean and uncluttered.

~ Richard Mowe -

Elusively impenetrable stuff that only loosely can be described as cinema.

~ Richard Mowe -

Elusively impenetrable stuff that only loosely can be described as cinema.

~ Richard Mowe -

The training sessions begin to pall - for the audience as much for the participants - but once the action moves to Norway, the pace and the scenery pick up considerably.

~ Richard Mowe -

The training sessions begin to pall - for the audience as much for the participants - but once the action moves to Norway, the pace and the scenery pick up considerably.

~ Richard Mowe -

Although we alight at many points of interest throughout the journey, we never stop long enough anywhere to explore.

~ Jane Fae -

Although we alight at many points of interest throughout the journey, we never stop long enough anywhere to explore.

~ Jane Fae -

There's a certain degree of decompression in its storytelling, and a willingness to jump in time and space, and though the two are strong there's a weird sense that these are the highlights and story beats of a much longer television drama.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There's a certain degree of decompression in its storytelling, and a willingness to jump in time and space, and though the two are strong there's a weird sense that these are the highlights and story beats of a much longer television drama.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Showing a keen understanding of the nature of sex work and of life on the streets, Vidal-Naquet carries us through several days in Léo's life in a observational, non-judgemental way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Showing a keen understanding of the nature of sex work and of life on the streets, Vidal-Naquet carries us through several days in Léo's life in a observational, non-judgemental way.

~ Jennie Kermode -

This is an intelligent, sumptuous period piece, shining an intriguing light into the corners of the 18th-century Imperial Court of China.

~ Jane Fae -

This is an intelligent, sumptuous period piece, shining an intriguing light into the corners of the 18th-century Imperial Court of China.

~ Jane Fae -