What Suzanne Lindon achieves in Spring Blossom is truly surprising, and her voice is clear and heartfelt. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Sep 7, 2022

It’s a far cry from conventional storytelling which is pretty impressive coming from a filmmaker just beginning what could be a wonderful career in cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

The mere fact that a voice as young as that of the director Suzanne Lindon makes its way into the current vast audiovisual panorama is something to celebrate. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2021

The ways in which writer/director Lindon reveals 16 year old character Suzanne's joy and growing attachment to Raphaël, and all he stands for, are inventive and sweet.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2021

It's a shame that Spring Blossom does feel under-realized on the whole, but should leave [viewers] curious to discover where this fledgling filmmaker's career is heading.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2021

I appreciated how much it takes her experience, her feelings, and her agency without judgment or handwringing.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2021

It just feels so authentic and the lives feel so lived-in. It's a really impressive effort.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2021

Suzanne Lindon has created an exceptional, insightful film.

Full Review | May 27, 2021

Such a confident and self-assured debut would be remarkable for a filmmaker of any age, as "Spring Blossom" is a finely wrought, sensitively felt and artistically bold work.

Full Review | May 24, 2021

If you can get past the ickiness of watching a way-too-young girl (legally) date a way-older-man, then there's much to enjoy here. Lindon certainly has big things in store for her.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 23, 2021

"She and cinematographer Jérémie Attard make sure the visuals are crisp and colorful, creating perhaps the sunniest, most sensible movie about an inappropriate relationship I've ever seen."

Full Review | May 21, 2021

It's a slim story but it's told effectively.

Full Review | May 20, 2021

Lindon's... work occasionally feels like a pastiche. At the same time, she rejects the trope of the angsty teenager, capturing adolescent alienation with buoyancy and subtle whimsy.

Full Review | May 20, 2021

In creating material so close to her lived experience, Lindon is able to avoid the common clichés of teenage stories.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 19, 2021

[Director and star Suzanne Lindon] wrote the screenplay when she was just 15, and her authentic perspective shines through this tale of teenage romantic obsession.

Full Review | May 18, 2021

Throughout her directorial debut, Suzanne Lindon paints a concise and truthful portrait of her protagonist's feelings of estrangement.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 17, 2021

Captures the exhilaration of young love.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 16, 2021

Spring Blossom shows potential, especially in Lindon's acting and directing, making me look forward to her future work, but the script here falls flat.

Full Review | May 5, 2021

Suzanne Lindon, the movie's 21-year-old writer-director (who plays the girl), gives us a slightly precious drama, but Lindon's teenager is quite endearing in her mix of gaucheness and maturity, and the film taps deeply into her feelings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2021

Spring Blossom adds little to the well-worn genres of forbidden love and coming-of-age drama. But it is told with a refreshing confidence by first-time director, writer and actress Suzanne Lindon.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2021