[A] piquant chamber comedy.

Full Review | Mar 11, 2020

The result plays like a short story - deftly detailed, efficient, full of telling vignettes, perfectly formed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2019

This is a very French movie... It's a fun movie.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2019

This pair of female adventurers aren't even really characters, so much as fantasies. It's a shame because Garrel directs with frothy light-touch flair.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2019

A tart, seriocomic morsel of desire and doubt, Louis Garrel's "A Faithful Man" is the French actor-filmmaker's second examination of triangulated romance after his debut feature as a director, "Two Friends."

Full Review | Aug 1, 2019

An efficient short story of a film that feels more like an intellectual exercise than an emotional experience.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2019

Garrel shows genuine springy inventiveness as a director, particularly with respect to Eve's sometimes self-correcting flashbacks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 19, 2019

With a running time short of 75 minutes, A Faithful Man is a deft little wisp of a romantic comedy, treating love as a mystery that's elusive in its chemistry and often inexplicable in its machinations.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2019

In some respects, the film resembles Éric Rohmer's moral tales, but amorality - all three principal characters are effectively dancing on a man's grave - seems to be the order of the day.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2019

Running just 75 minutes and seemingly loath to move beyond superficial feints at both comedy and melodrama, A Faithful Man, by comparison, barely qualifies as a trifle.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 17, 2019

Many plot twists and turns are packed into the rather rushed 75-minute running time here, and they are not always "elegant," to borrow a preferred term from the film, but they are certainly diverting.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2019

A nimble romantic comedy with a puckish sense of humour regarding crushes, fantasies and romantic affairs.

Full Review | Jun 18, 2019

There are surprises and dark rumblings in this largely light-hearted film, and Garrel shows full confidence in [Joseph Engel] to shoulder the dramatic load. The boy rewards his faith.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2019

It reveals itself as neither committed New Wave subversion nor skillful homage, but rather a weak and uninspired imitation.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2018

Besides a few funny jokes, A Faithful Man is a non-entity with little formal interest whatsoever.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2018

A Faithful Man shows that Garrel has promise as a filmmaker, with a knack for directing actors and a welcome sense of Gallic wit.

Full Review | Sep 10, 2018