Here, the times are changing and so is the plot. In fact, you can expect a mood swing every five minutes, in a story so muddled even the strong cast, including Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, can't save it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2008

This poignant, flashback flick, is worthwhile for the opportunity to see a couple of seasoned pros, its very well-acquainted leads, Oscar-nominees Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, opposite each other again, for the seventh time in their careers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2007

All but devoted cineastes will be disappointed.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2007

Clash of characters in love set against a clash of civilizations.

Full Review | Feb 1, 2007

Techine would have been better off ditching the supporting characters altogether and focusing on the relationship between Antoine and Cecile.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

[Techine's] observations of culture clashes... are thought-provoking but - like most of the movie - keep the audience emotionally separated from the characters' hearts.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

A spare but rich film from French master technician Andr (C) T (C)chin (C).

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2006

[a] strangely moving love story

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2006

Techine is so intrigued by the dramatic differences between the sisters that you might not even notice they are the same actress.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2006

French director Andre Techine sketches a family with the usual flaws, but takes the unusual step of not fixing them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 13, 2006

Volatile and sometimes daring performances by Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Malik Zidi, and Lubna Azabal (as twins) contribute to the highly charged and novelistic experience.

Full Review | Aug 12, 2006

... another gorgeous and immensely satisfying reminder that there are few better directors than Techine when it comes to capturing the vagaries of the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2006

If Changing Times' last shots don't touch you, your heart may be frozen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2006

Tchin...is back in form with this engrossing tale of the inconvenient passions that bubble beneath the surface among people who have accepted bourgeois compromise.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2006

Frenchman Techine proves again that he's a master of crafting seemingly ordinary events into a unique and exilarating world, and he's greatly helped by his superlative actors, Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve (in her fourth film with him).

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 5, 2006

... more drily sociological than dramatic.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 4, 2006

Despite its weaknesses, Changing Times (Les Temps Qui Changent in French) is always watchable and even poignant from time to time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2006

This willfully slippery movie seems to make the case both for mixing it up and sticking to your own kind. Which is all of a piece with the sensibility of this wonderfully ambiguous filmmaker, a visionary of our changing times.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2006

A surprising entertainment for the mature among us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 2, 2006

An interesting film experience, as much because of its chaotic narrative as in spite of it.

Full Review | Jul 27, 2006