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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Vanity FairRichard LawsonVanity FairRichard LawsonA chewy, handsomely staged novel of a movie, Sorry Angel (whose much better French title translates to Pleasure, Love, and Run Fast) contains moments of piercing intelligence and heartbreaking beauty. It’s an epic diptych look at two lives converging, one in many ways just beginning, the other faltering to a close. I was absolutely in love with it—until the very end.
- 90Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangWhat's bracing about Sorry Angel is that it refuses to allow the specificity of its characters — specifically drawn and superbly played — to be obscured or flattened by the drama of terminal illness. Neither man is made nicer or more palatable than he has to be.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschWhile it has visual energy to spare, the movie is more relaxed and less flamboyantly playful than most of Honore’s other films, unfolding with naturalistic grace — precise but unfussy framing, fluid camera movements — and fewer New Wave-y winks and nods.
- 85TheWrapBen CrollTheWrapBen CrollHonoré’s deliberately paced, willfully unsentimental character study is like the yin to the yang of last year’s Cannes Grand Prize winner, “BPM.” Whereas Robin Campillo’s ACT-UP drama argued that the personal was political, and did so with lightning-bolt urgency, Honoré’s film is a more subdued rumination on community and connection.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThough the film resists easy categorisation, it often tumbles along like queer screwball, which chimes with its original French title: Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite, or Give Pleasure, Love and Run Fast. It’s a fine manifesto, and Honoré’s film excels at all three.
- 67The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorShot in gorgeous turquoise and cerulean blues by that fine cinematographer, it is often a remarkably beautiful film and, with that suggestion of real experience, an inevitably sad one. Such qualities might not be enough to entirely disregard any feelings of familiarity, but they might just be enough to forgive them.
- 60CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleDeladonchamps and Lacoste make for engaging leads and there is warmth and humour here too.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is often poignant and humorous but also placid and complacent, with performances bordering on the self-regarding and even faintly insufferable.