Best Years of a Life

Translated from swedish: Love shimmers and radiates a gentle warmth that a receptive environment can hardly fail to notice.
- Jan Söderqvist

Swedish: svd.se »

Translated from swedish: That the whole thing sometimes resembles an almost cotton-candy-sticky nostalgia project can't be helped. For while never indispensable, it's inoffensive, somehow universal, and at times enchanting.
- Calle Wahlström

Swedish: ng.se »

Translated from swedish: Looking back on a love that once was is a universal phenomenon. Thoughts about life choices one has made can feel particularly poignant in the autumn of one's years. But this film isn't really about Anne and Jean-Louis – it's about the now 81-year-old director Claude Lelouche. He's the one who can't let go of their love story. The audience moved on long ago.
- Caroline Hainer

Swedish: svt.se »

Translated from swedish: Reunions are touching, though it might get a bit too sentimental at times.
- Jan-Olov Andersson

Swedish: aftonbladet.se »

Translated from swedish: "Best Years of a Life" is, as the film title suggests, a feel-good story about a relatively happy and uncomplicated reunion after many years. Even though Jean-Louis and Anne's long love story is without parallel in film history. The world of cinema has always been dominated by the problems and joys of young and middle-aged couples.
- Eva Sarman

Swedish: filmeye.se »

Translated from swedish: I'm watching "Best Years of a Life" without knowing the background. And I'm captivated by the beauty of the flashbacks, they take up a lot of time in the film and I wonder if they're newly shot. They look so incredibly cool, like French 60s style, that I want to stay in them.
- Björn Jansson

Swedish: sverigesradio.se »

Translated from swedish: Making a sequel with the same actors after more than fifty years is an impressive feat. Even though this emotional farewell doesn't reach the same heights as the original, we're treated to a worthwhile cinematic experience.
- Charlotta Lundborg

Swedish: filmtopp.se »

Translated from swedish: The film's strength is also its weakness: it doesn't have much plot, but rather what happens is that emotions and impressions are conveyed through words, images, sound and music. The film is more like a piece of filmed poetry about existential questions and the passage of life.
- Rosemari Södergren

Swedish: kulturbloggen.com »

Translated from swedish: This mini cult film was completely new to me. Your heart jumped into your throat when the red light approached and it became clear that the driver intended to push past the other law-abiding, waiting cars. Say what you will about the approach, but there was definitely pulse and passion here.
- Mårten Blomkvist

Swedish: dn.se »