There is plenty to enjoy here but at times you feel as if you’re caught in a rapidly revolving roll call of famous names, and I couldn’t stifle the suspicion that I was missing out on a better story unfolding just beyond the frame.

[Guillaume Nicloux's] greatest achievement lies in the aesthetic reconstruction of the period...A formal approach that underscores how theatrical elements permeated the life of the Divine. [Full review in Spanish]

Sandrine Kiberlain is a divine Sarah Bernhardt. [Full review in Spanish]

The Divine Sarah Bernhardt is a confident and unapologetic film. It is stitched together from events - some real, some imagined - from across three decades or more, and yet it still plays as a cohesive vision of a sprawling and kaleidoscopic life.