Beloved: Press reviews

'It won't be to everyone's taste but it's playful enough to win us over.'

At Cannes: 'If a little long, a little messy and a little incoherent, it is pleasantly watchable and performed with relish by a star-studded cast'

'Those who like Beloved will file it under guilty pleasures.'

At Cannes: 'Honore's latest again forges a song-sprinkled narrative out of intertwined stories of love and grief, with the second half especially delivering the helmer's trademark melancholy-tinged melodrama'

'[Christophe Honoré] is an original who sticks steadfastly to his belief that cinema doesn't have to be depressing to tell us that life is often pretty difficult to get through without pain.'

'Christophe Honoré's delivers on his promises and provides a captivating film that just needs the fat trimming.'

'light and charming'

At Cannes: 'Other than Garrel, a stiff actor with limited expressiveness, the players do admirably. They convey emotions and sentiments the artificial script hardly deserves'

'doesn't scale the heights of the Truffaut and Demy films it pastiches.'

'Curiously, it's just about watchable, despite a strong whiff of self-absorption.'

'Only those prepared to swallow the long-winded storytelling and patchy charm of Christophe Honoré's ‘Beloved' are likely to find this decade-hopping, musical-realist study of love and loss truly appealing.'