Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune Mar 13, 2021 3/4

This is a film for the happy few perhaps -- but that audience will find it eminently satisfying.

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Ty Burr Boston Globe Nov 24, 2011 3/4

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David Noh Film Journal International Mar 1, 2007

There's barely a laugh or a smile in the entire film and, after a while, there's just so much quietly desperate angst and anomie a viewer can take.

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Chelsea Bain Boston Herald Oct 21, 2006 3/4

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Desson Thomson Washington Post Sep 2, 2005

Feels like one idea stretched into a modest, colorful display. But what a sweet display it is.

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Moira MacDonald Seattle Times Aug 12, 2005 3.5/4

Becomes a quiet tribute to friendship, and to the way that something torn can be made perfect again.

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Sean Axmaker Seattle Post-Intelligencer Aug 11, 2005 B-

At its best, the film is as delicate and lovely as the gorgeous sequin-embroidered designs the women spin on spider webs of diaphanous materials.

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Jul 10, 2005 B+

Sequins is a lovely calling card for its maker and its stars.

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Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Jun 22, 2005 B+

...lonore Faucher's film is a timeless, multi-layered affair of artistry, apprenticeship, friendship and love

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Ken Fox TV Guide May 27, 2005 3/5

Touched with eerie dream sequences, the film casts a strange spell that's enhanced by the rhythmic, almost sensual depiction of the painstaking art of embroidery.

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Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News May 27, 2005 3/4

lonore Faucher's quietly assured debut is a lovely, almost painfully intimate story of female bonding that never panders to its characters or its audience.

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V.A. Musetto New York Post May 27, 2005 3/4

Eleonore Faucher, first-time director (and co-writer) of the French charmer Sequins, is well aware of Neymark's allure and sees to it that the young woman is seldom out of the frame.

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Manohla Dargis New York Times May 26, 2005 2/5

In this decorous trifle from France, the director lonore Faucher builds her story with studied deliberation and piece by precious piece.

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David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor May 26, 2005 4/4

Faucher's filmmaking is exquisite, Naymark's acting is luminous, and superb use of music lends a crowning touch.

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David Ng Village Voice May 24, 2005

Sequins hinges on its performances and newcomer Naymark is a marvel of quiet intelligence, endowing Claire with a complex mix of virginal purity and hormonal rage.

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Michelle Thomas Future Movies UK May 21, 2005 3/10

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Mike McCahill BBC.com May 10, 2005 3/5

At the film's heart is an acutely observed and sensitively played relationship between two people very much in need of one another.

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Boyd van Hoeij european-films.net May 8, 2005

Brodeuses shows us rookie director Faucher's complete control over her material. A small gem of a film high on atmosphere and with two pitch-perfect performances.

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Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter May 1, 2005

Cinematography and art decoration trump plot and character development.

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Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Mar 23, 2005 4/5

An exquisitely filmed and acted story about the way beauty serves as a healing force in the lives of an adolescent girl and a grieving mother.

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