Just a Sigh

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Just a Sigh

2014

1h 45m

Comedy

Drama

Romance

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A French actress (Emmanuelle Devos) meets a foreigner (Gabriel Byrne) who awakens something deep within her.

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

05/29/2014

Devos manages to keep it afloat in the second half as the actress peels away for her own adventure and writer-director Jérôme Bonnell develops a subplot that will force the lovers to part for good.

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Stephanie Merry

Washington Post

05/01/2014

2/4

"Just a Sigh" lives up to its name. It disappears without a trace.

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Marci Schmitt

Minneapolis Star Tribune

03/31/2014

3.5/4

"Just a Sigh" charms, with its scenes of street musicians, philosophical debates and headstrong romance, as much as it poses dilemmas of fate and desire.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

08/29/2019

3/5

Bonnell's latest is a surprisingly effective two-hander, conveying an unprecedented emotional depth about passion, the performance of it, and how life has a surprising way of reminding us how to feel alive.

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Morgan Rojas

Cinemacy

03/01/2019

Ultimately, Just a Sigh is a mediocre, "day-in-the-life" film that would have made an incredible short, as one gets the sense that this is far too stretched out to qualify as a solid feature-length film.

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John Fink

The Film Stage

06/21/2016

B+

A complex experience, the pleasure of Just a Sigh exists mostly in its visuals, tonal shifts and performances.

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03/31/2014

Slow moving but I really like these actors. I wouldn't recommend it.

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03/09/2014

Devos is quite good, but there's not much else to like in this slow-paced, inconsequential film.

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02/05/2014

OK, so I don't really know how good this movie is. Very early on I thought, "this would play VERY differently if the gender of the characters was reversed." So I watched two movies simultaneously and it was fascinating experiencing the audiences response to one movie while imagining their very different response to the other. Watched that way, it's wonderful.

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04/28/2013

Un fil ténu tient le film, et pourtant la tension est là. Les 2 acteurs principaux sont superbes, tout en finesse. De l'humour aussi.

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04/13/2013

On y croit vraiment à la fin...un peu moins au début. Très belle Emmanuelle Devos en tout cas.

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04/10/2013

Les loufoques parties comédie, avec d'excellents seconds rôles, sont très réussies mais la romance entre les deux personnages principaux, qui constitue la trame du film, m'a laissé de marbre, avec un Gabriel Byrne fadasse. Par contre Emmanuelle Devos est géniale.

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Jérôme Bonnell

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Emmanuelle Devos

Alix

Gabriel Byrne

Douglas

Gilles Privat

Rodolphe

Aurélia Petit

Diane

Laurent Capelluto

Olivier

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Synopsis

A French actress (Emmanuelle Devos) meets a foreigner (Gabriel Byrne) who awakens something deep within her.

Director: Jérôme Bonnell
Producer: Edouard Weil
Screenwriter: Jérôme Bonnell
Distributor: Distrib Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 21, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 1, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $75.5K
Runtime: 1h 45m