Click to read the article
Comment
04/23/09
The Man of My Life (2007)
53
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:10
Rotten:9
Average Rating:5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A late-night discussion of love between two men--a married heterosexual and his gay neighbor--drives a wedge between the husband and his wife. Actor-turned-director Zabou Breitman helms this French... [More]
Reviews for The Man of My Life
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The Man of My Life has a hard time working up much beyond its visual prettiness.
10/18/08
Ultimately, there aren't any pointed conclusions about the meaning of life here other than the rather obvious one that under the still waters of an idyllic Provencal river, the currents run deep
06/18/08
he film has a loose, easy rhythm befitting its sun-splashed look.
11/09/07
The most visually resplendent movie so far this year (photographed by Michel Amathieu), yet it lacks the rich balance of sex and intellect that makes an André Téchiné film great.
10/03/07
If the film ultimately amounts to little more than a midlife coming-of-age story, it's richly imagined and filled with fanciful touches that are in keeping with its passionate subject.
09/26/07
All too often, though, characters bandy about platitudes like they’re tennis balls...or shout for no reason.
09/25/07
The film, a purported examination of male sexuality, was directed and written by women, and thus all we get is two super-sensitive men stroking each others' emotional baggage instead of licking each others' *****.
09/23/07
A special, often beautiful and profound film.
09/21/07
It is beautiful, but ultimately empty and a little bit boring.
09/21/07
A sumptuously illustrated but shallow fable of the grass-is-greener conflict between freedom and commitment.
09/21/07
Top CriticToo much emphasis is placed on wall text that swirls around like the worst Magnetic Poetry.
09/20/07
Despite good acting and intriguing theme, attraction of married hetero to his gay neighbor, the film feels familiar, from its countryside setting to stereotypical treatment of the homosexual; French title, Man of Her Life, is more accurate and ironic, too
09/18/07
Despite good acting and intriguing theme, attraction of a married hetero to his single gay neighbor, film feels minor and familiar, from the countryside setting to the stereotypical charcaters; French title (Man of Her Life) is more accurate and ironic
09/18/07
Director Zabou Breitman, who co-wrote the screenplay, maintains intrigue by regularly cutting back to scenes from the overnight conversation between Frederic and Hugo, adding new insights to the growing friendship.
08/30/07
It is the unique pleasures to be found in The Man of My Life that are what linger.
06/19/07
...felt like making a discovery...
06/11/07
Although the actors try gamely, they cannot fully rescue THE MAN OF MY LIFE from its flaws. There's a germ of a very good idea in the screenplay, but I just don't feel that the writers fully grasped what they were undertaking.
05/07/07
There is a terrific film hiding away in these two hours of good (but not great) artistic melodrama.
10/09/06
A drama that steadily succumbs to self-conscious artiness, drunk on its own sense of contrived poetry and cloudy existential reflection.
09/12/06
Top Critic1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Latest News for The Man of My Life
September 27, 2007:
Critical Consensus: Game Plan Fumbles, Kingdom is Overthrown, Feast Is Semi-Appetizing, Elah Worth a Visit
This week at the movies we have parenting quarterbacks (The Game Plan, starring The Rock), FBI agents (The Kingdom, starring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner), lonely citizens... More...
August 22, 2007:
Trailer & Poster review 
More...
What’s Hot On RT
Other News
Fresh Links
Featured
40 Best Films of the 2000s
Last week, Moviefone offered us their worst films of the 2000s. Now see their 40 best!
Worst Hollywood Remakes of the Decade
Movieline gets bravely swept away with the recycled refuse of the 2000s.
Follow Rotten Tomatoes on Twitter
Get all the latest movie updates, reviews, interviews and features here.
Competitions
Win Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 prize packs
We're giving away a bunch of stuff from the upcoming Squeakquel.
IGN RSS Feeds