54
Metascore
12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaRogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaCézanne et Moi is at its most intoxicating whenever it looks and acts like a landscape painted by its title 19th-century French artist.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenCézanne et Moi offers a pungent, demystifying portrait of the rowdy late-19th-century Parisian art world where famous painters and poets mingled and jostled for position at dinner parties and art openings filled with shoptalk, backbiting and intrigue.
- 67The Film StageThe Film StageCézanne et moi alternates between frustrating and engaging, but there is no doubt that its soberness in the face of luxury and genius, and its fidelity, despite some slight shallowness, linger on.
- 60Village VoiceChuck WilsonVillage VoiceChuck WilsonThe film gains power in the final third...one wishes Thompson had chosen to view the great artist's lives through the eyes of the women who loved (and tolerated) them
- 60Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleEver-present is the mild dissonance of fiery pioneers of expression inspiring charmingly pretty if standard art house fare.
- 50The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloIntensive research has killed many a biopic, but Cézanne Et Moi, which recounts the tempestuous lifelong friendship between Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola, labors even more tediously than most to accommodate personal details, whether or not those details serve the narrative.
- 50VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe cinematic equivalent of calendar art.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThompson’s heavy-handed storytelling, along with a nonstop score of pure mush, brings this closer to telenovela territory than to the Louvre.
- The cinematography’s sumptuous, but pacing is very stop-start. Worse, there’s an aura of male entitlement, fuelled by the script’s uncritical reverence of its flawed philanderers.
- 38Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonThe film barely even scratches the surface of the animating force of Cézanne and Zola's lives: their art.