Come Undone - Reviews

"Shimmeringly beautiful and utterly real."
Stephen Holden, New York Times

"Sébastien Lifshitz' Come Undone is the most mature depiction of a young gay male's romantic awakening I have ever seen."
Jan Stuart, The Advocate

"It's refreshing to see a movie about young gay love in which homosexuality is not a problem or an issue "
Bruce Shenitz, Out Magazine

"These are the kind of teen love stories we want to see!"
Andy Jones, Genre Magazine

"Seductive!"
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

"This beautifully visualized story of first love from a gay perspective is marked by extraordinarily nuanced performances."
Staff, Seattle Weekly

"Succeeds splendidly ."
Dennis Dermody, Paper Magazine

"Startlingly frank and sensual."
Brandon Judell, Indiewire.com

"Both Elka•m and Rideau are incredibly sexy leads and give remarkable performances "
Gary Kramer, Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

"Simmers with sensuality!"
Gregg Kilday, The Advocate

"A challenging, rewarding film that aspires to a psychological complexity American queer film rarely attempts anymore."
Ernest Hardy, LA Weekly

"A love story that is both complex and delightfully explicit!"
David Lamble, Bay Area Reporter

"Hot boys, great story!"
Marcus-Jay Wonacott, San Francisco Frontiers

"Elkaïm and Rideau's performances are wonderfully naturalistic, expressing a freedom of body and spirit through almost purely visual means. "
Robert Koehler, Variety

"Disturbing, sympathetic, nonmelodramatic, and very much like real life."
Dennis Harvey, San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Elkaïm is wonderful...(and) Rideau, who is almost too sexy for words, plays Cédric with just the right combination of brutishness and sensuality"
Rod Armstrong, Reel.com

"Intriguing and beautiful. I couldn't take my eyes away from the screen."
Jodi Paper, San Francisco Examiner

"The photography is strong, the performances sympathetic and the sex plentiful!"
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

"Charged by Rideau's amazingly sexy performance as the most forthright gay character put on screen to date, this is a fine piece of filmmaking."
David Ehrenstein, New Times Los Angeles

"Come Undone brings maximum subtlety, nuance and insight into the timeless story of first love."
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times