The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

A man (Reda Kateb) and a woman (Sophie Semin) are sitting on chairs in a garden outside of Paris on a bright summer day. All day long they talk about life and love.

• Reda Kateb as the man
• Sophie Semin as the woman
• Nick Cave as himself
• Peter Handke as the gardener
• Jens Harzer as the writer

The film garnered a 14% approval rating from 7 critics, with an average rating of 3.2 out of 10, on Rotten Tomatoes.[3] Metacritic provides a score of 32 out of 100 from 6 critics, which indicates "generally unfavorable" reviews.[4]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 2 stars out of 5, calling it "an inert and exasperatingly supercilious two-hander: self-conscious, tedious, with a dated and cumbersome theatricality, tricked out in a 3D presentation that adds nothing to its dull stereoscopic tableaux of an idealised French garden outside Paris."[5] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter praised Virginie Hernvann's production design.[6]

Ben Croll of IndieWire gave the film a grade of D, saying, "I think it could live on as a curiosity, as an answer to the question, 'What is the most uniquely spoiler-impervious film since Andy Warhol aimed his camera at the Empire State Building and let it roll for eight hours?'"[7] Guy Lodge of Variety said, "Even for Wenders completists, the film is of mostly academic interest: an intermediate entry in the filmmaker's ongoing investigation into the possibilities of stereoscopic imagery, thus far deployed to far more vibrant effect in his documentaries than in his narrative work."[8]

• The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez at IMDb