Libération (4/28/2017) - "It probaby is this artist's charming talent : knowing how to highlight the conventions without being heavy handed." Eve Beauvallet
Theatrorama (4/18/2015) - "He shows with talent that feat of strength comes from defeating strength" Cathia Engelbach (not yet translated)
The Guardian (11/9/2010) - "The discourse being fragmented, deformed and mangled in a marvellous satire of today's infra-language." Fabienne Darge
Liberation (10/30/2010) - "P.M, F.H and P.A are not troublemakers but they know how to sow the seeds of doubt. The result isn't any less devastating." RENE SOLIS
Rue 89 (10/22/2010) - " these players have been peerless in their capacity to grasp and travel through their era, to grab it by the scruff of its banality, polish the mirror of its tautologies." Jean-Pierre Thibaudat
Objectif Cinema (5/8/2010) - "With (faux) naïveté, malice and finesse, Phoenix Atala’s film questions language" Nicolas Villodre
La Provence, La Marseillaise… (10/19/2009) - "It’s as if 2be3, coached by les Deschiens, had decided to bring Deleuze to the stage. Or not." D.B.
"dissections – often hilarious – of different processes of communication" Denis Bonneville
"Grand Magasin are here to reinvent the meaning of the objects that surround us" Guillaume Arias
Telerama (5/3/2008) - "Unless it’s not your style of humor, you’ll very quickly be smiling out of delightful disbelief." Cathy Blisson
Inrockuptibles (3/11/2008) - "An obvious taste for deconstruction and parodic irony,
which are particularly efficient here." Hugues le Tanneur
Cahier du Cinema (9/15/2007) - "A mockery of cinematic conventions" Ch.G
"A feminist use of split-screen" Ch.G
New York Times (11/13/2005) - "Grand Magasin deconstructing L'Office. The banality of cubicle life, viewed in a french movie." Roslyn Sulkas
Liberation (7/1/2005) - "All of this, performed by the three actors who, in this unreal camping ground, look like amateur sociologists." BRUNO MASI
Liberation (2/19/2005) - "Actions are taken to their logical conclusion that borders at times on the absurd, at times on the comical." Hervé Gauville
Télérama (2/16/2005) - "At any rate, a Grand Magasin show isn’t something that’s told,
but rather savored." Cathy Blisson and Florence Broizat
but rather savored."
Instructions (1/21/2005) - "A catalogue of reflections, programmatic gestures and actions which defy the spatiotemporel conditions of the stage." Guillaume Désanges
La Marseillaise (10/14/2004) - "the show is like a conference of French professors whose insanity is linked to philology" Francis Cossu