La Buche Critic Reviews

It unfolds with the verve and clarity of a piece of music, carefully composed and passionately played.Read the full review

With its lovely images of wintertime Paris and its lyrical Michel Legrand music, La Bu^che does take the cake.Read the full review

A confection that is ultimately better because of its bitterness.Read the full review

The film's invented Paris -- endless restaurants, boutiques, and impossibly large apartments, with a little artificial ''grit'' thrown in -- is pretty, and the neatly wrapped plot provides the comforting illusion that one's own family dramas can be as easily and amusingly resolved.Read the full review