In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
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| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyEverything in Life of Riley, Resnais makes plain, is a contrivance. Much of the joy and beauty of the movie comes from letting the levels of contrivance fall into place, as with some Rube Goldberg contraption, creating a parallel abstract narrative to the more conventional semi-farcical one unfolding on screen. |
| Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonResnais's lightheartedness is infectious as he dispenses with the cinematic "reality" he never quite trusted, shooting the six-person farce on obvious sets, with curtains for doors and flat theatrical lighting. |
| Battle Royale With CheeseRosalynn Try-Hane[Life of Riley] is a film adaptation of the play by Alan Ayckbourn that is bereft of laughs or joy and just tries too hard. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenAlain Resnais's overpoweringly beautiful final film dares to push through the ghosts that inhabit the present, standing between the pessimism of an ill-spent past and the optimism of an undefined future. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA final opportunity to see a master at work in this mischievously melancholic delight. |
| Little White LiesAdam NaymanA drama within a drama within a drama that's orchestrated with lightness, subtlety and enchantment. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenLife of Riley is neither especially profound nor riotously funny. An element of caricature is palpable in the performances but restrained. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeFilmed on abstract sets, it’s full of playful touches, such as lines delivered in front of a screen that looks like a comic-strip panel, and glimpses of a mole puppet popping out from a fake lawn. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyOne of the cinema's most lighthearted and free-spirited farewells. |
| Time OutDavid EhrlichShot when the director was 91 and finished just before he died in March, Alain Resnais’s third adaptation of an Alan Ayckbourn play is his gentlest attempt at using the artifice of theater to affirm the reality of imagination. |
