"Cousin, Cousine merits attention for its witty, mocking satire (in) relaxed, contemporary, personal, post-New Wave filmmaking. Tacchella...is preoccupied with flaunting a sweet, intrafamily adultery which Renoir would have celebrated more directly as an inevitable romance... Tacchella races in pastel tones through the bright vignettes of a developing affair and maneuvers with a slashing bravura between sardonic observations directed towards thriving relatives and a solid affection for his mature, increasingly absorbed lovers (Victor Lanoux as a free-spirited man-child and Marie-Christine Barrault as a stately mother figure)...."-Tom Allen, Soho Weekly News, 1976