The comic swerves and dramatic twists feel at once dutiful and arbitrary, and supposedly intense emotions are explored with the arch, weary detachment of a school assignment.

Unlike the observation of a cafe owner, that teenage girls are as delicate as a glass. No matter what the circumstance, she is stronger than you and she can destroy you. Honoré too understands, about fleeting nature of love and its unfairness.

Mr. Honor rejuvenates the age-old love triangle story on the surface, but underneath, it's still the same heavy-handed morality at play.

...reminiscent of Abdel Kechiche's "L'esquive" ("Games of Love and Chance"), yet while that film felt modern, urban and gritty, this one is more steeped in urban moodiness and doomed romance...