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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Total FilmSimon KinnearTotal FilmSimon KinnearIt’s best to sit back and luxuriate in the film’s unhurried pleasures: crisp Mediterranean settings, Alexandre Desplat’s mournful score and a clutch of likeable performances.
- 60The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloVisually, nothing’s changed, with Auteuil still framing his actors (and himself) in purely functional medium shots, occasionally punctuated by postcard-pretty views of Marseilles’ piers. Dramatically, however, Fanny is a bit meatier.
- 60Village VoiceDanny KingVillage VoiceDanny KingFanny has a stagy sensibility, but Auteuil displays flashes of genuine, old-school craft.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerFanny is definitely a worthy companion to Marius, although it’s also more claustrophobic in terms of staging, confining the action to a handful of interior sequences that feel less like a movie than like filmed theater, albeit of a rather high order.
- 50The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergMr. Auteuil’s passion project is sincere but not successful, honorable but not alive.
- Auteuil has fashioned hidebound museum pieces that expand the backdrop with sun-dappled glimpses of port activity, while generally resisting any notes of modernity or change of emphasis. What modicum of cosy Sunday-afternoon pleasure they provide stems from the performers.
- 25Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardThe characters, the sets, and the scenes all exist to propagate the notion that pleasure derives from repetition and remediation.