"Filled with expectations, Etienne moves to Paris from Lyon to study film directing at the Sorbonne. He leaves behind his girlfriend Lucie, promising to call her regularly via Skype. On his course he meets Jean-Noël and Mathias, they too have come to the metropolis from smaller cities and share his passion for cinema. Jean-Paul Civeyrac's tenderly melancholic black-and-white study of these young people's encounter with art and life is at the same time a declaration of love for classic cinema and the city of Paris." (Berlinale)
"The film brings to mind how some of the best French movies - especially those of the New Wave - are marked by both an intense love of film and the fiery passions of youth. Indeed, in 'Mes provinciales' cinephilia can sometimes turn into a matter of life and death." (The Hollywood Reporter)
"Civeyrac is a great director and his new feature film, with all its exceptional cinematography mastery and magnificent fiction, easily and delicately contains indisputable proof of that fact. The film distils an irresistible timeless charm, realistic without being naturalistic, contemporary without being a slave to the times." (Cineuropa)
