Reception
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Late Marriage was positively received by critics. Metacritic, which calculates a score from zero to 100 from a film's reviews, gave it a score of 82, translating to "Universal acclaim." Late Marriage was placed at 88 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.
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