Ozon -- has finally hit a home run, and Rampling is his most remarkable RBI.

It's a great pleasure that -- we get to ponder one of the most involving psychological mysteries in recent memory.

Mesmerizing and unforgettable.

Fascinating, visually gorgeous cinematic study that will frustrate some viewers by its ambiguity.

An exquisite reflection on personal bereavement.

Requires careful attention at its abrupt finish. Close concentration on the final shots yields a meaning not possible should a viewer's attention wander or turn away a few moments too soon.

Powerfully enigmatic study of the fundamental opacity of human relations.

It's a role of fierce demands, and Rampling meets them all. In a summer of crass, Rampling is a true class act.

Mr. Ozon gives the movie to Ms. Rampling, whose performance is like a perfectly executed piano etude, finding precise, impossibly subtle shadings of pleasure, confusion and distress.

Charlotte Rampling takes you so far inside the pain of Marie Drillon it leaves you stirred, shaken and a little in awe.

Manages the most delicate of hat tricks: It gives definition to uncertainty.

Ozon has crafted a near-perfect film, a mournful, moving kind of cinema poetry.

A movie of introspection and defiance.

Ozon specializes in dissecting the vulnerability, erotic longing, and garbled intentions with which people regularly rub up against one another.